Unreferenced date December 2009 In budget ing or management accounting in general , a variance is the difference between a budgeted, planned or standard amount and the actual amount incurred sold. Variances can be computed for both costs and revenues. The concept of variance is intrinsically connected with planned and actual results and effects of the difference between those two on the performance of the entity or company. Types of variances Variances can be divided according to their effect or nature of the underlying amounts. When effect of variance is concerned, there are two types of variances When actual results are better than expected results given variance is described as favorable variance. In common use favorable variance is denoted by the letter F usually in parentheses F . When actual results are worse than expected results given variance is described as adverse variance, or unfavourable variance. In common use adverse variance is denoted by the letter A or the letter U usually in parentheses A . The second typology according to the nature of the underlying amount is determined by the needs of users of the variance information and may include e.g. Variable cost variances Direct material variance s Direct labour variance s Variable production overhead variances Fixed production overhead variances Sales variance s Example Let us assume that standard direct material cost ... X kg of Kevlar which cost Y Direct material total variance can be calculated as Infobox VarianceAnalysis ... variance am1 1 am2 2 am3 3 va1 F Variance Analysis Variance analysis , in budgeting or management accounting in general , is a tool of budgetary control by evaluation of performance by means of variances .... Variance analysis can be carried out for both costs and revenues. See also Budgeting Non profit ... total variance direct material price variance direct material usage variance DEFAULTSORT VarianceAccounting Category Management accounting ... more details
About the mathematical concept other uses Variance disambiguation In probability theory and statistics , the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out. It is one of several descriptors ... . In particular, the variance is one of the Moment mathematics moments of a distribution. In that context ... in terms of mathematical and computational simplicity. The variance is a population parameter ... of its variance in the simplest cases this estimate can be the sample variance , defined below. Basic discussion Examples The variance of a random variable or probability distribution distribution ... from its expected value or mean. Thus the variance is a measure of the amount of variation ... 6 3.5 frac 16 2.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 2.5 1.5. math But its expected squared deviation its variance the mean ... is 0.25 0 0.5 1 0.25 2 1, and the variance is 0.25 0 1 sup 2 sup ..., the variance of a variable has units that are the square of the units of the variable itself. For example, a variable measured in inches will have a variance measured in square inches. For this reason ... over using the variance. In the dice example the standard deviation is 2.9 1.7, slightly ... with variance and its generalization covariance , is used frequently in theoretical statistics ... distribution . Estimating the variance Real world distributions such as the distribution of yesterday ... raindrop. Instead one Estimation theory estimates the mean and variance of the whole distribution as the computed mean and variance of a Sample statistics sample of n observations drawn suitably randomly ... the variance by a factor of n 1 n . For example, when n 1 the variance of a single observation is obviously zero regardless of the true variance . This gives ... used to estimate the variance then this bias does not arise and the variance can safely be estimated as that of the samples. To illustrate the relation between the population variance and the sample ... more details
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Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Accounting title orig translator image File Accounting bruce.jpg 200px image caption author Bruce Marshall illustrator cover artist country Scotland language English language English series genre Novel publisher pub date 1958 english pub date media type Print Hardback pages 285 isbn N A preceded by Girl in May 1956 followed by A Thread of Scarlet 1959 The Accounting is a 1958 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall . Plot summary The scene of this novel is Paris , where the branch of a well known London bank is being audited. A normally routine affair, this year s audit is different the auditors have reason to believe that there may be fraud or embezzlement at play. How do the auditors know this? A few indiscreet words overheard at a Paris nightclub . Our attention is turned to each player, some major and many minor, the bank officials and overseers of the audit of course, but mostly to the underpaid, unhappy junior and senior auditors, each a prisoner of his own private conflicts and aspirations, and each seeing the discovery and proving of the fraud as his chance for promotion. The novel makes the seemingly boring task of auditing understandable and delves into the hearts of those who make business their life s work. ref Marshall, B The Accounting Houghton Mifflin 1958. ref References reflist BruceMarshall DEFAULTSORT Accounting Category Novels by Bruce Marshall Category 1958 novels Category Scottish novels Category Novels set in Paris ... more details
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In probability theory and statistics , a conditional variance is the variance of a conditional probability distribution . Particularly in econometrics , the conditional variance is also known as the scedastic function or skedastic function . Conditional variances are important parts of ARCH models. Definition The conditional variance of a random variable Y given that the value of a random variable X takes the value x is math operatorname Var Y X x operatorname E Y operatorname E Y mid X x 2 mid X x , math where E is the expectation operator with respect to the conditional distribution of Y given that the X takes the value x . An alternative notation for this is math operatorname Var Y mid X Y x . math The above may be stated in the alternative form that, based on the conditional distribution of Y given that the X takes the value x , the conditional variance is the variance of this probability distribution . Components of variance The law of total variance says math operatorname Var Y operatorname E operatorname Var Y mid X operatorname Var operatorname E Y mid X , math where, for example, math operatorname Var Y X math is understood to mean that the value x at which the conditional variance would is evaluated is allowed to be a random variable , X . In this law , the inner expectation or variance is taken with respect to Y conditional on X , while the outer expectation or variance is taken with respect to X . This expression represents the overall variance of Y as the sum of two components, involving a prediction of Y based on X . Specifically, let the predictor be the least mean squares prediction based on X , which is the conditional expectation of Y given X . Then the two components are the average of the variance of Y about the prediction based on X , as X varies the variance of the prediction based on X , as X varies. Category Statistical deviation and dispersion Category Statistical terminology Category Theory of probability distributions statistics stub probability ... more details
unreferenced date July 2007 Sales variance is the difference between actual sales and budget sales. It is used to measure the performance of a sales function, and or analyze business results to better understand market conditions. There are two reasons actual sales can vary from planned sales either the volume sold varied from plan sales volume variance , or sales were at a different price from what was planned sales price variance . Both scenarios could also simultaneously contribute to the variance. For example The plan was to sell 5 widgets at 3 each, for a budgeted sales of 5 3 15. In reality, 6 widgets were sold at 2 each, for an actual sales of 6 2 12. The total variance was thus 12 15 3 U nfavourable or minus 3, since total sales was less than planned. Sales price variance Sales Price Variance The sales price variance reveals the difference in total revenue caused by charging a different selling price from the planned or standard price. The sales price variance is calculated as Actual quantity sold actual selling price planned selling price . In the example, the sales price variance was 6 2 3 6 U nfavourable or minus 6, since the sales price was less than planned. Sales volume variance Sales Volume Variance is calculated as Budgeted price actual volume planned volume . In the example, the sales volume variance was 3 6 5 3 F avourable, or plus 3, since the sales volume was more than planned. Sales Volume Variance is further sub divided into two variances. Sales Mix Variance Sales Quantity Variance Total variance The total variance can thus be seen algebraic ally to be minus 6 plus plus 3 , giving minus 3 . Or 6 3 3. This result tells us that the negati ve effect of selling at a lower price was twice the positive effect of selling at a higher volume than planned. This might have occurred where prices were lowered to increase volume, but actual volume increases did not meet expectations, perhaps due to competitors also cutting their prices, or changes in customer ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced November 2007 context September 2009 The price variance Vmp of a material is computed as follows Vmp Actual unit cost Standard unit cost Actual Quantity Purchased or Vmp Actual Quantity Purchased Actual Unit Cost Actual Quantity Purchased Standard Unit Cost . When the Actual Materials Price is higher than the Standard Materials Price, the variance is said to be unfavorable, since the Actual price paid on materials purchased is greater than the allowed standard. The variance is said to be favorable when the Standard materials Price is higher than the Actual Materials Price, since less money was spent in purchasing the materials than the allowed standard. Category Economics terminology economics stub ... more details
A variance swap is an over the counter finance over the counter financial derivative that allows one ... index . One leg of the swap will pay an amount based upon the realised variance of the price changes ... The features of a variance swap include the variance strike the realized variance the vega notional ... exchanged. However, in the case of a variance swap, the notional amount is specified in terms of The Greeks Vega .CE.BD vega , to convert the payoff into dollar terms. The payoff of a variance swap ... var math variance notional a.k.a. variance units , math sigma text realised 2 math annualised realised variance, and math sigma text strike 2 math variance strike. ref name FinCAD cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Variance and Volatility Swaps work publisher FinancialCAD Corporation ... 29 ref The annualised realised variance is calculated based on a prespecified set of sampling points over the period. It does not always coincide with the classic statistical definition of variance as the contract ... the realised variance. If this is done, it is common to use math n 1 math as the divisor rather than math n math , corresponding to an unbiased estimator estimate of the sample variance. It is market ... swap . ref name FinCAD cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Variance and Volatility Swaps ... VarianceSwaps.htm doi accessdate 2008 09 29 ref This makes the payoff of a variance swap comparable ... The variance swap may be hedged and hence priced using a portfolio of European call options ... Need To Know About Variance Swaps work publisher JPMorgan Equity Derivatives report year 2005 url http ... prices vanilla option vanilla options can therefore be used to price the variance swap. For example, using the Heston model , a closed form solution can be derived for the fair variance swap rate. Care ... effect on the price. We can derive the payoff of a variance swap using Ito s Lemma . We first assume ... dS t S t d log S t frac sigma 2 2 dt math Taking integrals, the total variance is math text Variance ... more details
is held constant. If, in order to achieve a small variance in y, numerous repeated tests are required at each value of x, the expense of testing may become prohibitive. Reasonable estimates of variance can be determined by using the principle of pooled variance after repeating each Statistical hypothesis testing test at a particular x only a few times. Pooled variance is a method for estimation theory estimating variance given several different sample statistics samples taken in different circumstances where the mean may vary between samples but the true variance equivalently, accuracy and precision ... n k 1 s k 2 n 1 n 2 cdots n k k math where s sub p sub sup 2 sup is the pooled variance, n sub i sub is the sample size of the i th sample, s sub i sub sup 2 sup is the variance of the i th sample, and k ... samples i.e. Bessel s correction . The square root of a pooled variance estimator is known as a pooled ... population variance. The latter one can give a more efficient math s p 2 math to estimate math sigma ..., variance and standard deviation are presented in the next table. border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding ... 3 2 29.5 4.5 2.12 4 5 20.6 4.3 2.07 5 5 19.0 2.5 1.58 These statistics represent the variance and standard ... a single estimate of variance and standard deviation. In a sense, this suggests finding a mean variance or standard deviation among the five results above. This mean variance is calculated by weighting the individual values with the size of the subset for each level of x . Thus, the pooled variance ... are their respective variances. The pooled variance of the data shown above is therefore math S P ... also referring to Cohen s d on page 6 DEFAULTSORT Pooled Variance Category Statistical terminology Category Analysis of variance ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Variance Type Studio Artist Jega Cover Jega Variance.jpg Released 20 July 2009 Recorded Genre Electronic music Electronic Length 38 01 small Vol 1 small br 37 31 small Vol 2 small br 75 32 small total small Label Planet Mu Producer Jega Dylan J Nathan Reviews http reviews.headphonecommute.com 2010 02 13 jega variance planet mu Headphone Commute Last album Geometry Jega album Geometry br 2000 This album Variance br 2009 Next album Variance is the third album by electronic music ian Jega , released on 20 July 2009 by Planet Mu . ref cite web url http www.planet mu.com discography ZIQ024 title Planet Mu Records Discography Variance publisher Planet Mu accessdate 7 July 2009 ref Track listing tracklist headline Vol 1 title1 SoulFlute length1 4 41 title2 Antiphon length2 4 43 title3 Moment length3 3 07 title4 The Girl Who Fell to Earth length4 4 44 title5 Sakura length5 4 42 title6 Eva length6 4 27 title7 Dreams length7 4 36 title8 Aqueminae length8 4 01 title9 Zenith length9 3 00 tracklist headline Vol 2 title1 Tensor length1 0 32 title2 Shibuya length2 4 02 title3 Chromadynamic length3 4 44 title4 Cascade Decoherence length4 3 39 title5 Aerodynamic length5 4 36 title6 Latinhypercube length6 4 59 title7 Kyoto length7 5 22 title8 Hydrodynamic length8 4 23 title9 Reprise length9 5 14 References Reflist External links http www.planet mu.com discography ZIQ024 Variance at the Planet Mu website 2000s electronic album stub Category 2009 albums Category Jega albums Category Planet Mu albums Category Double albums ... more details
Realized Variance RV is the sum of squared returns. For instance the RV can be the sum of squared daily returns for a particular month, which would yield a measure of price variation over this month. More commonly, the realized variance is computed as the sum of squared intraday returns for a particular day. The realized variance is useful because it provides a relatively accurate measure of volatility ref cite journal last Andersen first Torben G. last2 Bollerslev first2 Tim authorlink2 Tim Bollerslev year 1998 month title Answering the sceptics yes standard volatility models do provide accurate forecasts pages 885 905 journal International Economic Review volume 39 ref which is useful for many purposes, including volatility forecasting and forecast evaluation. Related quantities Unlike the variance the realized variance is a random quantity. The realized volatility is the square root of the realized variance, or the square root of the RV multiplied by a suitable constant to bring the measure of volatility to an annualized scale. For instance, if the RV is computed as the sum of squared daily returns for some month, then an annualized realized volatility is given by math sqrt 12 times RV math . Properties under ideal conditions Under ideal circumstances the RV consistently estimates the quadratic variation of the price process that the returns are computed from. ref cite journal last Barndorff Nielsen first Ole E. last2 Shephard first2 Neil authorlink Ole Barndorff Nielsen authorlink2 Neil Shephard year 2002 month May title Econometric analysis of realised volatility and its ... is some possibly random process for which the integrated variance, math IV int 0 t sigma s 2 ds, math is well defined. The realized variance based on math n math intraday returns is given by math RV ... variance converges to IV in probability. Moreover, the RV also converges in distribution in the sense ... year 2006 month April title Realized variance and market microstructure noise pages 127 218 doi 10.1198 ... more details
The Allan variance AVAR , also known as two sample variance , is a measure of frequency stability in clock ... as math sigma y 2 tau . , math The Allan deviation ADEV is the square root of Allan variance. It is also ... variance is a measure of frequency stability using M samples, time T between measures and observation time math tau math . M sample is expressed as math sigma y 2 M, T, tau . , math The Allan variance ... such as frequency drift or temperature effects. The Allan variance and Allan deviation ... variance Interpretation of value Interpretation of value below. There are also different adaptations or alterations of Allan variance . Notably the modified Allan variance MAVAR or MVAR, the total variance , and the Hadamard variance . There also exist time stability variants such as time deviation TDEV or time deviation time variance TVAR. Allan variance and its variants have proved useful outside ... processes are not unconditionally stable, but a derivative will be. The M sample variance is of historic ... of 2 sample variance with math T tau math now being called Allan variance . It remains important since it allows dead time in measurements and bias functions allows conversion into Allan variance values ... the need for that application. To address these problems, David Allan introduced the M sample variance and indirectly the two sample variance. ref name Allan1966 While the two sample variance did not completely ... any M sample variance to any N sample variance via the common 2 sample variance, thus making all M sample variances comparable. The conversion mechanism also proved that M sample variance does not converge for large M, thus making them less useful. IEEE later identified the 2 sample variance ... forms have the effect that the standard variance estimator does not converge when processing time ... , Cambridge university press, ISBN 978 0 521 88677 2 ref Interpretation of value Allan variance ... of the frequency deviation sampled over the sampling period. The Allan variance depends on the time ... more details
In mathematics, more specifically in the theory of Monte Carlo method s, variance reduction is a procedure used to increase the precision of the estimates that can be obtained for a given number of iterations. Every output random variable from the simulation is associated with a variance which limits the precision of the simulation results. In order to make a simulation statistically efficient, i.e., to obtain a greater precision and smaller confidence intervals for the output random variable of interest, variance reduction techniques can be used. The main ones are Common random numbers, antithetic variates , control variate s, importance sampling and stratified sampling . Under these headings are a variety of specialized techniques for example particle transport simulations make extensive use of weight windows and splitting Russian roulette techniques, which is a form of importance sampling. Common Random Numbers CRN The common random numbers variance reduction technique is a popular and useful variance reduction technique which applies when we are comparing two or more alternative configurations of a system instead of investigating a single configuration. CRN has also been called Correlated sampling , Matched streams or Matched pairs . CRN requires synchronization of the random number streams, which ensures that in addition to using the same random numbers to simulate all configurations, a specific random number used for a specific purpose in one configuration is used for exactly the same purpose in all other configurations. For example, in queueing theory, if we are comparing two different configurations of tellers in a bank, we would want the random time of arrival of the N ... that the variance is reduced. It can also be observed that if the CRN induces a negative correlation, i.e., Cov X sub 1 j sub , X sub 2 j sub 0, this technique can actually backfire, where the variance ... LA UR 03 1987 Category Monte Carlo methods Category Variance reduction fr R duction de la variance ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 Essay date April 2009 Time variance is the ability to remember historic perspectives. The requirement is to be able to know how something was classified or who owned something and how this changed as time passed. For the context of time and frequency and qualification of oscillators and amplifiers the technical terms time deviation and time deviation time variance is defined. Understanding time variance Future change, be it organizational, regulatory or geographical is hard to conceive. In 1988, who imagined that within a few years, Yugoslavia and East Germany would cease to exist? Enabling a data warehouse to report pre and post change information together in a meaningful context is very expensive and time consuming. Couple that with the pressure to rapidly meet other business requirements, and with the inability for any of us to predict change especially at system design time , and you can see why the time variant reporting requirement is often ignored. But at what expense? The real life case below illustrates the value of time variant reporting A beverage company paid rebates to customers at year end, based on ownership of customer sites at year end. The sales data warehouse did not reflect customers selling sites to one another throughout the year, resulting in mis payments and a multi million dollar customer service dilemma. For regulatory compliance and other reasons, data warehouses must remember how things were in the past because at some point business people will expect to be able to be report on them that way.So it is one of the important characteristic of data warehouse DEFAULTSORT Time Variance Category Data warehousing Link GA de de Temporale Datenhaltung ... more details
for the weblog Cosmic Variance blog cosmology Cosmic variance is the Statistics statistical uncertainty inherent in observations of the universe at extreme distances. It is based on the idea that it is only possible to observe part of the universe at one particular time, so it is difficult to make statistical statements about physical cosmology cosmology on the scale of the entire universe, ref name aspj Cite journal url http www.iop.org EJ article 1538 4357 600 2 L171 17416.html author Somerville et al. title Cosmic Variance in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters year 2004 volume 600 issue 2 pages L171 L174 doi 10.1086 378628 last2 Lee first2 Kyoungsoo last3 Ferguson first3 Henry C. last4 Gardner first4 Jonathan P. last5 Moustakas first5 Leonidas A. last6 Giavalisco first6 Mauro arxiv astro ph 0309071 bibcode 2004ApJ...600L.171S ref ref name aas Cite web url http www.aas.org publications baas v37n4 aas207 1366.htm title Quantifying the Effects of Cosmic Variance Using the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey accessdate September 18, 2007 publisher American Astronomical Society year 2006 author M.S. Keremedjiev Cornell University work 37 4 ref as the number of observations sample size must be too small. Background The standard big bang model is usually supplemented with cosmic inflation . In inflationary models, the observer only sees a tiny ... about the model, unless the observer is careful to include the variance . This variance is called the cosmic variance and is separate from other sources of experimental error a very accurate measurement ... uncertainty about the underlying model. Variance is normally plotted separately from other sources ... , is to explicitly include the variance of very small statistical samples Poisson distribution when ... Loeb method of reducing cosmic variance with CMB polarization publisher Department of Astrophysics ... Cosmic Variance Category Physical cosmology Category Statistical deviation and dispersion ... more details
Merge from Atypical gender role date July 2010 Gender variance , or gender nonconformity , is behaviour or gender expression that does not conform to dominant gender norms of male and female. People who exhibit gender variance may be called gender variant , gender non conforming , or gender atypical ... Review, v29 n2 p192 200 2000 ref Terminology The terms gender variance and gender variant are used ... and psychiatry , ref Walter O. Bockting, Randall D. Ehrbar 2006 , Commentary Gender Variance, Dissonance ... 0789032147 NB Several articles in this book use the term gender variance . ref anthropology , ref Serena ... 157766 0749 NB Nanda uses the term gender variance to encompass gender phenomena in different cultures ... and or behavior. ref name GLAAD Childhood gender variance Main Childhood gender nonconformity Multiple ... for men vs. women Unreferenced section date July 2010 Gender variance among men usually attracts more teasing, ostracism and violence than gender variance among women. Many sociologists who ve studied ... variance. On the contrary, because the male gender role is usually praised and honoured in Western societies, women who engage in gender variance are tolerated and encourage because of their conversion ... status for men and women exhibiting gender variance may also include their occupation and their preference ... dads. However, women who typically have more of a say when it comes to gender variance have far ... between men and women when associating gender variance with sexual orientation. Gender roles in Western ... their behaviour to avoid violence, rejection and ostracism. Among women, gender variance is occasionally ... exhibit gender atypical behaviour rarely experience social rejection or bullying as gender variance among women has become more socially acceptable and is more tolerant than gender variance displayed ... indicator of one s sexual orientation. For men, gender variance is usually repressed and punished. However, gender variance exhibited in childhood tends to diminish by adolescence, due to secondary sex ... more details
context date March 2011 Variance decomposition or forecast error variance decomposition indicates the amount of information each variable contributes to the other variables in a vector autoregression VAR models. ref L tkepohl, H, New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis , Springer, 2007, p. 63. ref Variance decomposition determines how much of the forecast error variance of each of the variable can be explained by exogenous shocks to the other variables. Calculating the forecast error variance For the VAR p of form math y t nu A 1y t 1 dots A p y t p u math . Change this to a VAR 1 by writing it in companion form see general matrix notation of a VAR p math Y t mathbf nu A Y t 1 U math where math A begin bmatrix A 1 & A 2 & dots & A p 1 & A p mathbf I k & 0 & dots & 0 & 0 0 & mathbf I k & & 0 & 0 vdots & & ddots & vdots & vdots 0 & 0 & dots & mathbf I k & 0 end bmatrix math , math Y begin bmatrix y 1 vdots y p end bmatrix math , math mathbf nu begin bmatrix nu 0 vdots 0 end bmatrix math and math U begin bmatrix u 0 vdots 0 end bmatrix math where math y t math , math nu math and math u math are math k math dimensional column vectors, math A math is math kp math by math kp math dimensional matrix and math Y math , math mathbf nu math and math U math are math kp math dimensional column vectors. Calculate the mean squared error of the h step forecast of variable j, math mathbf MSE y j,t h math , math mathbf MSE y j,t h sum i 0 h 1 sum k 1 K e j Theta ie k 2 bigg sum i 0 h 1 Theta i Theta i bigg jj bigg sum i 0 h 1 Phi i Sigma u Phi i bigg jj , math where math e j math is the j sup th sup column of math I K math and the subscript math jj math refers to that element of the matrix. math Theta i Phi i P math where math P math is a lower triangular matrix obtained by a Cholesky decomposition of math Sigma u math such that math Sigma u PP math . math Phi i J A i J math ... u math . The amount of forecast error variance of variable math j math accounted for by exogenous shocks ... more details
Infobox Company name Variance Films logo Image variancefilmslogo.jpg foundation June 2008 modifies Founded entry location city New York City location country United States location modifies Headquarters entry locations of locations industry Motion picture s divisions subsid slogan homepage http www.variancefilms.com intl Enter yes to change labels to international instead of US terminology Variance Films is a privately held film distribution company founded in 2008 that uses an innovative model of self distribution combined with select elements of traditional theatrical distribution to allow filmmakers to achieve quality theatrical releases for their films. Variance Films is notable in that they do not require filmmakers to sign over any rights to their films, instead partnering with filmmakers to ensure their film gets the proper theatrical release, while allowing them to keep their DVD, VOD, TV, and international rights. Theatrical Film Distribution List 2008 Walking on Dead Fish September 19 Smother September 26 2009 Nursery University April 24 White on Rice September 11 Blind Date 2008 film Blind Date September 25 Adventures of Power October 9 NYC, October 16 LA Chuy n T nh Xa X Passport To Love Passport to Love October 9 Until The Light Takes Us December 4 2010 After The Cup Sons of Sakhnin United May 21 The Lottery 2010 film The Lottery June 11 Spoken Word film Spoken Word July 23 Fool For Love September 10 Strange Powers Strange Powers Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields October 27 Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench November 5 2011 Ip Man 2 Ip Man 2 Legend of the Grandmaster January 28 Clash film Clash Bay Rong March 11 American The Bill Hicks Story April 8 Legend of the Fist The Return of Chen Zhen April 22 Battle of the Brides Co Dau Dai Chien May 6 How to Live Forever film How To Live Forever May 13 General Orders No. 9 June 24 Littlerock August 12 Amigo film ... Variance Films official website Category Film production companies of the United States ... more details
In statistics , analysis of variance ANOVA is a collection of statistical model s, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components ... of variance, and these are outlined here. Fixed effects models Model 1 Main Fixed effects model The fixed effects model of analysis of variance applies to situations in which the experimenter ... for the two types. Assumptions of ANOVA The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches ... model for which an analysis of variance may be appropriate. A model often presented in textbooks Many textbooks present the analysis of variance in terms of a linear model , which makes the following ... normal . Equality or homogeneity of variances, called homoscedasticity &mdash the variance of data in groups should be the same. Model based approaches usually assume that the variance is constant. The constant variance property also appears in the randomization design based analysis of randomized ... of a randomized balanced experiment fail to have constant variance, then by contraposition the assumption ... implies that the variance is constant for all treatments. Therefore, by contraposition , a necessary condition for unit treatment additivity is that the variance is constant. The property of unit treatment ... or observational study that the responses be transformed to stabilize the variance. ref Hinkelmann ... for by comparing the F test statistic math F frac text variance between items text variance within .... sup 2 sup eta squared Eta squared describes the ratio of variance explained in the dependent ... estimator of the variance explained by the model in the population it estimates only the effect size in the sample . On average it overestimates the variance explained in the population. As the sample ... df of the numerator equals 1 both measures proportion of variance accounted for , these guidelines may ... of the variance explained in the population is omega squared ref Bortz, 1999 full , p. 269f ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In variance analysis accounting direct material total variance is the difference between the actual cost of actual number of units produced and its budgeted cost in terms of material. Direct material total variance can be divided into two components the direct material price variance , the direct material usage variance . Example Let us assume that standard direct material cost of Widget economics widget is as follows 2 kg of unobtainium at 60 per kg 120 per unit . Let us assume further that during the given period, 100 widgets were manufactured, using 212 kg of unobtainium which cost 13,144. Under those assumptions direct material total variance can be calculated as Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBox tx1 100 units should have cost × 120 per unit tx2 but did cost tx3 Direct material total variance am1 12,000 am2 13,144 am3 1,144 va1 A Direct material total variance can be reconciled to direct material price variance and direct material usage variance by Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBoxRec tx1 Direct material usage variance tx2 Direct material price variance tx3 Direct material total variance am1 720 am2 424 am3 1,144 va1 A va2 A va3 A See direct material usage variance Example and direct material price variance Example for computations of both components. See also Variance analysis accounting Direct material price variance Direct material usage variance DEFAULTSORT Direct Material Total Variance Category Management accounting ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In variance analysis accounting direct material usage efficiency, quantity variance is the difference between the standard quantity of materials that should have been used for the number of units actually produced, and the actual quantity of materials used, valued at the standard cost per unit of material. It is one of the two components the other is direct material price variance of direct material total variance . Example Let us assume that standard direct material cost of Widget economics widget is as follows 2 kg of unobtainium at 60 per kg 120 per unit . Let us assume further that during given period, 100 widgets were manufactured, using 212 kg of unobtainium which cost 13,144. Under those assumptions direct material usage variance can be calculated as Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBox2 unt kg tx1 100 units should have used × 2 kg tx2 but did use tx3 Usage variance in kg tx4 standard cost per kg tx5 Usage variance in am1 200 am2 212 am3 12 am4 60 am5 720 va1 A va2 A Direct material usage variance can be reconciled to direct material total variance by way of direct material price variance Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBoxRec tx1 Direct material usage variance tx2 Direct material price variance tx3 Direct material total variance am1 720 am2 424 am3 1,144 va1 A va2 A va3 A See direct material total variance Example and direct material price variance Example for computations of both components. See also Variance analysis accounting DEFAULTSORT Direct Material Usage Variance Category Management accounting ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In variance analysis accounting direct material price variance is the difference between the standard cost and the actual cost for the actual quantity of material used or purchased. It is one of the two components the other is direct material usage variance of direct material total variance . Example Let us assume that the standard direct material cost of Widget economics widget is as follows 2 kg of unobtainium at 60 per kg 120 per unit . Let us assume further that during the given period, 100 widgets were manufactured, using 212 kg of unobtainium which cost 13,144. Under those assumptions direct material price variance can be calculated as Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBox tx1 212 kg of unobtainium should have cost × 60 tx2 but did cost tx3 Direct material unobtainium price variance am1 12,720 am2 13,144 am3 424 va1 A Direct material price variance can be reconciled to direct material total variance by way of direct material usage variance Infobox VarianceAnalysis VarianceBoxRec tx1 Direct material usage variance tx2 Direct material price variance tx3 Direct material total variance am1 720 am2 424 am3 1,144 va1 A va2 A va3 A See direct material total variance Example and direct material usage variance Example for computations of both components. See also Variance analysis accounting DEFAULTSORT Direct Material Price Variance Category Management accounting ... more details
Multiple issues orphan February 2009 unreferenced June 2007 context October 2009 Backflush accounting is a product costing approach, used in a Just In Time business Just In Time JIT operating environment, in which costing is delayed until goods are finished. Standard costs are then flushed backward through the system to assign costs to products. The result is that detailed tracking of costs is eliminated. Journal entries to inventory accounts may be delayed until the time of product completion or even the time of sale, and standard costs are used to assign costs to units when journal entries are made, that is, to flush costs backward to the points at which inventories remain. It can be argued that backflush accounting simplifies costing since it ignores both labour varianceaccounting variances and work in progress. Backflush accounting is employed where the overall business cycle time is relatively short and inventory levels are low. BackFlush accounting is inappropriate when production process is long and this has been attributed as a major flaw in the design of the concept. Meaning of Back flushing Back flushing can be referred to as automatic goods issue. Systems will automatically post the goods issue when you confirm the operations. You have no need to make manual issue, thus reducing effort and costs. Back flushing is automatic accounting of material consumed for production, at the time of confirmation of the production, e.g. when a 4 wheeler automobile is rolled out from assembly line, 4 wheels and tires are deemed to be consumed and issued to production order automatically by way of back flushing by the system. The assembly line picks the material from Stores Assembly line and use. No physical issue and manual posting of goods issue by stores is made. Back flush is used for materials which are requires for the product and have a fixed relationship with the product. References reflist accounting stub Category Management accounting Category Enterprise resource ... more details
for management accountants. VarianceaccountingVariance analysis , which is a systematic approach to the comparison ...peacock date February 2012 Accounting Management accounting or managerial accounting is concerned with the provisions and use of accounting information to managers within organizations, to provide them ... and control functions. In contrast to financial accountancy information, management accounting ... of by reference to general financial accounting standards. Definition Image IFAC Definition of MA.jpg ... Accounting Performance Evaluation & Analysis Planning & Decision Support. Copyright July 2009 Professional ... Accounting is the process of identification, measurement, accumulation, analysis, preparation, interpretation ... an entity and to assure appropriate use of and accountability for its resources. Management accounting ... management accounting is a profession that involves partnering in management decision making ... . The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AICPA states that management accounting as practice ... of the profession. Management accounting knowledge and experience can therefore be obtained from ... by the author A.van der Merwe Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved. Within the area of Management Accounting .... ref name MA ATMP cite journal author Clinton, B.D. Van der Merwe, Anton title Management Accounting ... accounting practices is perhaps best illustrated with the visual timeline see sidebar of managerial .... Traditional Standard Costing TSC , used in Cost Accounting dates back to the 1920 s and is a central method in management accounting practiced today because it is used for financial statement reporting ... COGS and Inventory valuation. Traditional Standard Costing must comply with generally accepted accounting principles GAAP US and actually aligns itself more with answering Financial Accounting requirements ... by defining cost behavior only in terms of production or sales volume. In the late 1980s, accounting practitioners and educators were heavily criticized on the grounds that management accounting ... more details
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