Calculating a company's financial variance can help with planning and budgeting in the future.

Variance is a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set. The variance measures how far each number in the set is from the mean. You can use Microsoft Excel to calculate the variance ...

Learn about how price and cost affect a company's gross profit margin and how variance can be calculated based on changes in these two variables.

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