Budgeting · The variance record · Element

The response

What is being done, including deciding to do nothing.

The part

What it is

Most variances need no action, and saying so explicitly is what keeps attention on the ones that do.

Where a variance is permanent, the forecast should change even though the budget does not.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.