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Variance (accounting) — In budgeting (or management accounting in general), a variance is the difference between a budgeted, planned or standard amount and the actual amount incurred/sold. Variances can be computed for both costs and revenues.The concept of variance is… … Wikipedia
adverse variance — unfavourable variance In standard costing and budgetary control, the differences between actual and budgeted performance of an organization where the differences create a deduction from the budgeted profit. For example, this may occur if the… … Accounting dictionary
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