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Assignment Brief

Operating Budget Comprehensive Analysis: Silver Spoon is a large British-Italian hospitality company, which serves the UK market. It focuses on three important areas of hospitality: Travel and Tourism; Food Services; Banquet and Events. The company employs around 5,000 people nationally, and provides services in 12 regions across the country as shown in the map above and is committed to ensuring a reliable supply of its services where and when they are needed. The hospitality market is becoming more competitive and development cost are rising. Businesses in the industry around the UK are restricted by the boom in European holiday destination, but is expected to improve in the long term with BREXIT. Cruise ships, airlines, agencies & tour operations …

Defining Variance Analysis

Variance analysis is used to assess the degree to which actual behavior varied from what was anticipated when comparing actual behavior to what was expected. This kind of research is intended to keep a business in check by analyzing areas where things went wrong unexpectedly. For example, if your projected sales are $10,000 and your actual sales are $8,000, there will be a $2,000 difference, according to the variance analysis. Variance analysis is particularly useful when looking at the amount of variation on a trend line since abrupt changes in the variance level from one month to the next are more apparent. The examination of these disparities in the context of variance analysis offers a description of …