Finance recipe · Data flow diagram
Why don’t Shopify, Stripe, and QuickBooks show the same revenue?
Draw it as a data-flow diagram with the MosoFin-diagram "Finance revenue walk" recipe. A left-to-right walk from gross sales through discounts, returns, tax, gift cards, fees, and recognized income. Your coding agent returns one validated, self-contained HTML file.
When to use this diagram
Founder and CFO disagree on “the number,” or Shopify sales do not match the P&L.
Pick another recipe when the question is one order’s timestamps, Stripe payout vs bank, or a close runbook.
What the diagram must include
- Gross to contra
- Tax and gift cards as not-income
- Fees as expense not contra
- Landing on the books
Copy-ready prompt
Paste this into your coding agent with MosoFin-diagram installed. Recipe ID: finance-revenue-walk.
Read references/finance-onboarding.md and FINANCE-BRIEF.md. Use Mosofin dataflow mode to walk gross commerce sales to recognized QuickBooks income. Put discounts and returns on the commerce rail; style tax and gift cards as security / not-income; treat processor fees as an expense branch, not a contra to sales. Do not invent totals. If a number is missing, omit it or tag unknown. Extra questions become at most five guided views.How to make it
- Install the skill. Add MosoFin-diagram to your coding agent. For Claude Code: npx -y skills add MosoFin/mosofin-diagram --skill mosofin --agent claude-code --global --copy --yes
- Describe the business once. Answer a short interview: what the business does, which entities are in scope, and which system of record owns each domain.
- Ask this question. Paste the Finance revenue walk prompt from this page. The agent writes the diagram spec, validates it, and repairs anything the validator names.
- Open and share the diagram. Open the self-contained HTML file in any browser, walk the guided views, and forward it or export an image.
Verified example
Northline Coffee — July Revenue Walk: Shopify to QuickBooks (2026-07) is a real data flow diagram delivered by the skill and checked by its validator.
Questions about this recipe
Which diagram type answers “Why don’t Shopify, Stripe, and QuickBooks show the same revenue?”
A data flow diagram. Revenue walks, payout reconciliations, cash runway and data lineage: where a number comes from. The Finance revenue walk recipe sets it up for this question.
When should I use a different recipe?
Pick another recipe when the question is one order’s timestamps, Stripe payout vs bank, or a close runbook.
Does MosoFin-diagram connect to my systems or invent numbers?
No. It draws only what you state in the business brief or the conversation. It never calls QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify, an ERP or a bank, and an amount you did not supply never appears.