An ‘Output Variance’ is the result when the actual costs allocated from a cost center differ from the planned (or target) cost ALLOCATION from the cost center. The variances on the ‘output side’ may be any one of the following:

Volume Variance: This variance occurs with actual and planned activities (in terms of activity quantity and/or the activity itself). 

Output PRICE Variance: This variance occurs when the activity price used in the actual allocation is a political activity price (manually entered or plan price) differing from the system calculated activity price (target price).

Output Quantity Variance: This kind of variance occurs only on the actual side, when there is a DIFFERENCE between the actual activity quantity (manually) entered in the sender cost center, and the actual activity quantity allocated from that sender cost center.

Remaining Variance: This reflects the miscellaneous variance, at the cost center level, identified by the system on the output side but remains not CATEGORIZED into any of the above three types. The possible reason can be that you have deactivated the output variances in the variance variant configuration or the output variance is less than the ‘minor difference’ you have defined in the ‘variance variant.’

An ‘Output Variance’ is the result when the actual costs allocated from a cost center differ from the planned (or target) cost allocation from the cost center. The variances on the ‘output side’ may be any one of the following:

Volume Variance: This variance occurs with actual and planned activities (in terms of activity quantity and/or the activity itself). 

Output Price Variance: This variance occurs when the activity price used in the actual allocation is a political activity price (manually entered or plan price) differing from the system calculated activity price (target price).

Output Quantity Variance: This kind of variance occurs only on the actual side, when there is a difference between the actual activity quantity (manually) entered in the sender cost center, and the actual activity quantity allocated from that sender cost center.

Remaining Variance: This reflects the miscellaneous variance, at the cost center level, identified by the system on the output side but remains not categorized into any of the above three types. The possible reason can be that you have deactivated the output variances in the variance variant configuration or the output variance is less than the ‘minor difference’ you have defined in the ‘variance variant.’