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DD-BVA-001

Mizan Manufacturing: The Customer Who Left — Budget, Reforecasts and Actual

Mizan Manufacturing makes household, personal-care, paper and industrial products for about sixty trade customers. You get every sales invoice line from January 2024 to September 2026 with units and prices, the monthly management P&L by account, and eight plan versions - the 2025 and 2026 budgets and March, June and September reforecasts for each year - by month and account. 2025 did not go to plan. Split the revenue gap into volume, price and mix, see what happened to the margin when the volume went and the fixed costs stayed, measure how good each reforecast was, and build the 2026 outlook. The same company appears in the general-ledger set DD-GLT-003.

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  • ~15,124 rows
  • 5 tables
  • 30 questions
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  1. Q001 Easy Revenue for 2025
  2. Q002 Easy Budgeted revenue for 2025
  3. Q003 Easy Revenue against budget, 2025
  4. Q004 Easy Units sold in 2025
  5. Q005 Easy Largest product line of 2025
  6. Q006 Easy Customers who bought in 2025
  7. Q007 Easy Invoices in 2025
  8. Q008 Easy Average price of household cleaners, 2025
  9. Q009 Easy Gross margin, 2025 actual
  10. Q010 Easy Gross margin, 2025 budget
  11. Q011 Easy EBITDA for 2025
  12. Q012 Easy Budgeted EBITDA for 2025
  13. Q013 Easy Plan versions
  14. Q014 Easy June 2025 reforecast of full-year revenue
  15. Q015 Easy Largest customer of 2024
  16. Q016 Easy What that customer bought in 2025
  17. Q017 Easy Administrative expenses, 2025
  18. Q018 Easy Revenue, January to September 2026
  19. Q019 Medium Revenue growth, 2025 over 2024
  20. Q020 Medium Volume variance, 2025
  21. Q021 Medium Price variance, 2025
  22. Q022 Medium Mix variance, 2025
  23. Q023 Medium EBITDA against budget, 2025
  24. Q024 Medium The month revenue fell hardest
  25. Q025 Medium How good was the September reforecast?
  26. Q026 Medium Revenue against budget, January to September 2026
  27. Q027 Medium Units, January to September 2026 against 2025
  28. Q028 Hard The 2026 outlook against budget
  29. Q029 Hard Fixed costs against budget, 2025
  30. Q030 Very Hard How much of the lost revenue reached the bottom line

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