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Variance Analysis: A Management-Oriented Approach.

John K. Shank; Neil C. Churchill

The Accounting Review 1977

ABSTRACT: This paper describes and illustrates an approach to teaching variance analysis which the authors have found to be very effective with their students. The approach is based on the dual ideas of profit impact as a unifying theme and a multi-level analysis in which complexity is added sequentially, one layer at a time. The analysis stops when additional complexity is not outweighed by additional "actionable" insights.

DOI
10.2308/tar-4505030
Volume
52 (4)
Pages
950-957
Language
en
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