{"id":"acct-close-calendar-business-days","audience":"accounting","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"context","level":"beginner","title":"Convert business-day deadlines to dates with a holiday","free":false,"task":"You're publishing the November close calendar. Write a prompt for plain text with lines starting \"BD1:\", \"BD3:\", \"BD5:\", \"BD7:\" and \"BD10:\", each with the weekday and date in December 2026. Business day 1 is the first business day of December. Weekends and the company holiday are not business days. Under 60 words. No bullets or numbering. Write each date without the year.","materialLabel":"Calendar facts and holiday notice (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"CLOSE CALENDAR INPUTS - November 2026 close, performed in December 2026\n\nDecember 2026 calendar: Dec 1 is a Tuesday.\nBusiness day 1 (BD1) is the first business day of December. Business days are Monday to Friday, excluding company holidays.\nCompany holidays in December: Monday Dec 7 (team day, office closed) and Friday Dec 25.\n\nDeadlines in the close policy: BD3 (high-risk reconciliations), BD5 (reviewer sign-off), BD7 (other reconciliations), BD10 (flux commentary).\n\nNotes: last year's calendar listed BD5 as Dec 7 before the holiday was announced; ignore last year's dates. Thanksgiving in November is not relevant.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"maxBullets","max":0}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the five lines","patterns":["bd1","bd3","bd5","bd7","bd10"]},{"label":"Gives the format","patterns":["tue dec 1","weekday"]},{"label":"Skips the holiday","patterns":["dec 7","holiday"]},{"label":"Bans last year","patterns":["(do not|don'?t).*last year"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","plain"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Counting the holiday","why":"The AI makes BD5 Dec 7.","fix":"Say: \"Skip weekends and the Dec 7 holiday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong weekdays","why":"The AI gives the wrong weekday for a date.","fix":"Add: \"Dec 1 is a Tuesday; format like BD1: Tue Dec 1.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Referencing last year","why":"The AI mentions last year's calendar.","fix":"Add: \"Do not mention last year's calendar.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown extras","why":"The AI adds bold labels, headings and a closing note.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold. Output only the lines asked for.\"","checks":["plainText","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs past word limits.","fix":"Ask for fewer words than the real cap and keep each line short.","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Business-day counts break at weekends and holidays. State the first day, the holiday and the format.","rubricLabels":["BD1 is Tue Dec 1 and BD3 is Thu Dec 3","BD5 is Tue Dec 8 and BD7 is Thu Dec 10 (Dec 7 is skipped as a company holiday)","BD10 is Tue Dec 15, and each line shows the weekday and date and doesn't mention last year's calendar, and no line contains the year 2026 or a spelled-out month"]}