{"id":"acct-move-in-payments-labels-table","audience":"accounting","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"constraints","level":"beginner","title":"Label six move-in payments as Deposit, Prepaid or Expense","free":false,"task":"You're coding the payments made when the company moved into a new office. Write a prompt for a markdown table with columns Item, Amount and Label, one row per payment in the order listed. Label must be exactly Deposit (refundable amounts), Prepaid (covers months after October) or Expense (everything else). Add a last line, outside the table, in the form \"Total prepaid: $x + $y + $z = $total\". Under 130 words.","materialLabel":"Payment list (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MOVE-IN PAYMENTS - Oct 2026 (books closing for October)\n\n1. Security deposit, refundable at lease end: $4,000\n2. October rent, covers Oct 1-31: $3,200\n3. Annual liability insurance premium, paid Oct 1, covers Oct 1 to next Sep 30: $2,400\n4. Replacement key fee: $50\n5. November rent, paid early on Oct 28 for Nov 1-30: $3,200\n6. Annual parking permits, paid Oct 1, cover 12 months: $1,200\n\nAdditional context: the company signed a 36-month lease on Oct 1. Books for October are being closed this week by the staff accountant, and the controller reviews every balance sheet account on Nov 5. Prepaid items are amortized monthly starting the month they begin to cover. The landlord may refund the key fee if the old key is returned, but that has not happened.\n\nNotes from the office manager: \"The landlord cashed everything on the same day, so the bank statement shows one lump sum of $14,050.\"","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":130}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Lists the three labels","patterns":["deposit","prepaid","expense"]},{"label":"Defines when to use each","patterns":["refundable","covers","after october"]},{"label":"Asks for the table columns","patterns":["item","amount","label"]},{"label":"Asks for the total line","patterns":["total prepaid","sum","\\+"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Calling November rent an expense","why":"The AI sees rent and books it to October.","fix":"Say: \"Anything that covers months after October is Prepaid.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Inventing label names","why":"The AI writes Prepaid asset or Security deposit asset instead of your labels.","fix":"Say: \"Label must be exactly Deposit, Prepaid or Expense.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Skipping the total line","why":"The AI ends the table without the sum or hides the math.","fix":"Ask for the last line in the form \"Total prepaid: $x + $y + $z = $total\".","checks":["r2"]},{"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 part short.","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Tell the AI the three allowed labels and what each one means, then ask for the sum that proves the prepaid number.","rubricLabels":["The table has six rows in the listed order and the labels are exactly Deposit, Expense, Prepaid, Expense, Prepaid, Prepaid","Amounts match the list (4,000, 3,200, 2,400, 50, 3,200, 1,200) and the November rent is labeled Prepaid, not Expense","The last line is \"Total prepaid: $2,400 + $3,200 + $1,200 = $6,800\" (or the same sum in another order) and nothing follows it"]}