Comparing actuals with previous year, budget and forecast on a monthly basis is the core activity of all FP&A, controlling and other finance professionals. It sounds simple, but it can turn into a battle when you want to report on current month as well as YTD values, show multiple comparisons vs PY and vs Budget, display absolute as well as relative variances, when you also have the forecast for the rest of year and you want to throw in the end-of-year forecast vs. plan comparison. On top of that you can use a number of different charts, such as variance charts, integrated variance charts, waterfall charts, lollipops, Z-charts, etc. which adds to the difficulty of mastering this seemingly trivial monthly task. In our 11th webinar we'll present 11 ways of reporting monthly variances and discuss the pros and cons of each one of them: http://bit.ly/2jXvBoP

1. Net Sales in kUSD
2016, Actual vs. Plan
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190 209 211
172 195
219 216 207 200
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Jan Feb Mar Apr Maj Jun Jul Avg Sep Okt Nov Dec
BANANAS
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283
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213 215 210 203
247 256 268
294
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-2 +6 -6
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Jan Feb Mar Apr Maj Jun Jul Avg Sep Okt Nov Dec
APPLES
160
206 223 205 213 215
188 196 183 163 162 160
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+40 +44 +34
+22 +45 -4
Jan Feb Mar Apr Maj Jun Jul Avg Sep Okt Nov Dec
GRAPES
65 75 82 81 81 81 72 70 78 85 82 91
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ORANGES

2. Company Inc.
GP, EBITDA in mEUR, Volume A, B in mio units
2016 AC, FC
We expect Gross profit to be 2.1 mEUR higher than planned by the end of year
because …
4,3
9,2
13,1
14,7
16,0
17,4
19,6
21,4 22,5
23,8
26,2
30,1
28,8
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
EBITDA
7,5
15,4
22,7
27,7
32,4
37,5
43,4
49,1
54,1
59,4
65,8
74,0
71,9
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
GP
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0,9
0,4 0,5
1,2 1,4
1,7 1,9 2,0
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Volume B
2,2
4,3
6,1
7,2
7,9
8,6
9,1
9,7
10,4
11,4
13,1
15,5
15,2
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Title 2
ΔPL%
ΔPL
AC+FC: 2 037 in 2013
FC: 579 of 2037 = 28%
PL
AC AC: 1 458 of 2037 = 72%
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4. Company
Net Profit in mEUR
2016: AC Jan..Aug, FC Sep..Dec
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We expect a minus of 29 mEUR (-14%) vs PY until end of the year
because of the negative variances until today
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2014
PY
2015
BU
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F M A M J J A S
FC
O N D 2015
FC
154
180
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+29 +32
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-19 -14
+36 +30
+60
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+73
+47 +53
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-50 -40
-21 -13
∆BU%
∆PY%
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5. 11 Ways of Tracking
Monthly Variances in FP&A
Andrej Lapajne
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