Percentage Investing Activities Variance v2

The Percent Variance in Investment calculator computes the percent difference in Investment Activity between two periods based on the net income of the previous period and the total (raw) variance in this period.

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose currency units and enter the following:

• (V) This is the variance in investment activity between this period and the last period.
• (L) This is the Investment Activity from the last period.

% Investment Variance: The calculator returns the percent variance in Investment Activity.

Related Calculators:

• Percent of Investment Variance between period based on the investment in last period and this.

In budgeting (or management accounting in general), a variance is the difference between a budgeted, planned or standard cost and the actual amount incurred/sold. Variances can be computed for both costs and revenues. This equation shows the percentage of variance in relation to investing activities.

Resource:

• Dopson, Lea R., and David K. Hayes. Managerial Accounting for the Hospitality Industry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009. Print.