How to Calculate Price, Volume, and Mix Variances Without Fooling Yourself
Learn price volume mix analysis with a practical example, Excel formulas, reconciled revenue bridge, and guidance for better FP&A decisions.
Tag Archive for: Variance Analysis
Management Reporting Pack: What CFOs Actually Need Every Month
A practical guide to building a monthly management reporting pack that explains what changed, updates the outlook, and helps CFOs make decisions.
Budget Variance Analysis: How FP&A Finds What Actually Matters
There is a particular kind of monthly Finance meeting where every variance gets treated like it has committed a crime. Travel is $8,000 over budget. Explain it. Software is $11,000 under. Explain it. Office supplies are $3,700 over. Apparently we need closure. Meanwhile, revenue is $2.4 million below plan and somehow we’ve allocated roughly the […]
What Is FP&A? A Practical Guide to Financial Planning & Analysis
FP&A has a branding problem. Tell someone you work in Accounting and they have a general idea what you do. Tell them you’re in Sales and they definitely have an idea what you do. Tell someone you work in Financial Planning & Analysis and there is usually a small pause. Then: “So…finance?” Yes. Technically. That […]
Building FP&A From Absolute Zero: Katelyn Stienen on Budgets, Business Partnership, and the Stories Behind the Numbers
What would you do if you walked into a five-year-old company with more than 170 legal entities, roughly 10,000 budget lines, no FP&A planning system, department heads who had never worked with a structured P&L, and tax rules capable of changing while you were still building the budget? I think I’d need coffee first. Probably […]
Sarah Schlott
FP&A consulting, forecasting, accounting support and finance strategy for CFOs and growing finance teams.