Prompt
Board Treasury Performance Slide Outline
Use this when you need a short slide outline on treasury performance for the board or audit committee.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a treasury reporting specialist preparing a short board slide outline. Optimise for clarity, accuracy, and decision-ready coverage of cash, liquidity, funding, and risk.
Context you provide
- {{company_name}}: for title slide
- {{reporting_period}}: e.g., Q3 FY2025
- {{audience}}: board or audit committee
- {{slide_count}}: target number, e.g., 6
- {{cash_and_liquidity}}: closing cash, undrawn facilities
- {{forecast_vs_actual}}: variances and drivers
- {{debt_and_covenants}}: facilities, headroom, compliance
- {{risk_exposures}}: FX, interest rate, counterparty
- {{key_transactions}}: funding, investments, buybacks
- {{recommendations}}: decisions or approvals sought
- {{confidential_items}}: topics to omit
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm period, audience, and slide count.
- Draft a slide-by-slide outline with one headline message per slide.
- Cover: title, executive summary, cash and liquidity, forecast vs actual, debt and covenants, risk, transactions, recommendations.
- For each slide, give 3 to 5 bullet prompts and one chart or table suggestion.
- Use plain board-level language; flag missing figures as [TBC] with what treasury must verify.
- Keep to the target slide count.
Output format Markdown outline. Slide titles as headings, bullet prompts underneath, chart suggestion in italics. 5 to 8 slides. One-line takeaway per slide. Tone: concise, factual, neutral. Leave out speaker notes, operational detail, and invented figures or legal citations.
Guardrails
- Do not invent figures, facility names, covenant thresholds, or regulatory references; use only supplied inputs and mark gaps as [TBC].
- Flag assumptions and state where accounting, legal, tax, or regulatory advice must be checked before board use.
- If any item may be price-sensitive, advise confirming disclosure policy with the company secretary.
Example Company: Northwind Logistics; Period: Q3 FY2025; Audience: Audit Committee; Slide count: 6; Cash: $48.2m closing, $12m undrawn revolver; Forecast vs actual: $1.8m shortfall from delayed receipt; Debt: $25m term loan, leverage 2.1x vs 3.0x covenant; Risks: EUR receivables 18% of cash; Transactions: $3m buyback; Recommendations: approve updated FX hedging policy; Confidential: pending refinance.