The difference between a revenue or cost item in the flexible budget and the same item in the static planning budget.
Activity variance
A report showing estimates of what revenues and costs should have been, given the actual level of activity for the period.
Flexible budget
A management system in which actual results are compared to a budget. Significant deviations from the budget are flagged as exceptions and investigated further.
Management by exception
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