Variance Analysis
Six categories, because each names a different department: price is purchasing, quantity is production, rate is the cost center, efficiency is the routing. A single "manufacturing variance" tells nobody what to do.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Variance Analysis
Address in the console: /accounting/cost-variances
Read-only list · 11 columns · 1 action
This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Period | Code | period_code |
| Order | Code | order_ref |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Type | Status | variance_type |
| Component | Code | component_code |
| Target | Amount | target_cost |
| Actual | Amount | actual_cost |
| Variance | Amount | variance_amount |
| Variance % | Number | variance_pct |
| Favourable | Yes or no | is_favourable |
| Explanation | Text | explanation |
What you can do here
Calculate variances primary
Asks for: Period (YYYY-MM)* Order type
* required
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.