Calculating a company's financial variance can help with planning and budgeting in the future.

Variance is a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set. The variance measures how far each number in the set is from the mean. You can use Microsoft Excel to calculate the variance ...

Variance is a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set. Investors use the variance equation to evaluate a portfolio’s asset allocation.

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