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  2. Variance (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    Variance analysis, in budgeting or management accounting in general, is a tool of budgetary control and performance evaluation, assessing any variances between the budgeted, planned, or standard amount, and the actual amount realized. Variance analysis can be carried out for both costs and revenues.

  3. Standard cost accounting - Wikipedia

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    An important part of standard cost accounting is a variance analysis, which breaks down the variation between actual cost and standard costs into various components (volume variation, material cost variation, labor cost variation, etc.) so managers can understand why costs were different from what was planned and take appropriate action to ...

  4. Cost accounting - Wikipedia

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    An important part of standard cost accounting is a variance analysis, which breaks down the variation between actual cost and standard costs into various components (volume variation, material cost variation, labor cost variation, etc.) so managers can understand why costs were different from what was planned and take appropriate action to ...

  5. Sales variance - Wikipedia

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    There are two reasons actual sales can vary from planned sales: either the volume sold varied from the expected quantity, known as sales volume variance, or the price point at which units were sold differed from the expected price points, known as sales price variance. Both scenarios could also simultaneously contribute to the variance.

  6. Management by exception - Wikipedia

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    The accounting department is responsible for the forecasting of budgets and cost performance reports. The difference between the estimated and actual figures is defined as variance. [ 12 ] To understand the cause of the difference, managers need to investigate the questions how the variance differs from last period and what are the causes for ...

  7. Activity-based costing - Wikipedia

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    Lean accounting methods have been developed in recent years to provide relevant and thorough accounting, control, and measurement systems without the complex and costly methods of manually driven ABC. Lean accounting is primarily used within lean manufacturing. The approach has proven useful in many service industry areas including healthcare ...

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  9. Management accounting - Wikipedia

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    Given the above, one view of the progression of the accounting and finance career path is that financial accounting is a stepping stone to management accounting. [16] Consistent with the notion of value creation, management accountants help drive the success of the business while strict financial accounting is more of a compliance and ...