Category: Variance Analysis

Intermediate
October 19, 2022
Monthly Sales Variances in Excel (PY-AC and AC-PL)
This Excel template is a two-page report for sales monthly variances. You can compare the actual with the previous year on one page and with the plan on the other page. Trends over time are visualized with Zebra BI Charts for Office.
October 19, 2022
Sales Variance Table in Excel (PY-AC-FC-PL)
The most powerful template for checking the Market/Country's actual performance in a hierarchical table. You can add up to 3 comparisons at the same time (plan, previous year, and forecast) with automatically calculated variances and integrated dynamic comments.
October 19, 2022
Sales Variance Table in Excel (PY-AC-PL)
Check the Market/Country's actual performance in a hierarchical table by adding 2 comparisons at the same time (plan and previous year). Zebra BI automatically calculates the variances and lets you add dynamic comments for more context.
October 19, 2022
Sales variance table in Excel (PY vs. AC and AC vs. PL)
This template shows Market/Country performance in a hierarchical table. It is a simple comparison of two measures (actual and plan or actual and previous year) with automatically calculated variances and integrated dynamic comments.
August 8, 2018
Mastering Variance Reports in Power BI
We explained the different types of variance reports and how to set them up in Microsoft Power BI to make reports clear and easy-to-understand.
March 24, 2016
Top 3 Ways to Report your Variance Analysis in Excel
There are a couple of different ways to perform variance analysis. Learn how to easily do it in Excel in 3 ways and improve your reporting.
March 23, 2016
8 Steps to Creating an Efficient Variance Report
The internet is full of bad examples of variance reports. Follow this guide to see how we turn one such example into a great and efficient variance report.