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DD-BVA-003

Mizan Group: Budgets, Reforecasts and the Drivers Behind Them

Mizan Retail, Mizan Manufacturing and Mizan Logistics, January 2023 to September 2026. The actuals come by day, cost centre and account (Parquet); the plans come from the planning tool as nested JSON - each version and company with its lines by month, cost centre and reporting line; the drivers come as plan (Excel) and actual (CSV): stores open, units by product line, headcount, trips, fuel litres and fuel price. A submission log records every budget owner's submission and revision with a timestamp; the version calendar has the deadlines, lock and approval times. There is no date table, and Logistics plans April to March. Explain why each company missed or beat its plan - late store openings, a lost customer, a new contract at a lower price per trip, a fuel spike - with volume, price, mix and efficiency variances; measure how good each reforecast was; and test the planning process itself.

  • Budget vs Actual
  • L3 · PARQUET
  • ~806,404 rows
  • 12 tables
  • 50 questions
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  1. Q001 Easy Group revenue for 2025
  2. Q002 Easy Plan versions
  3. Q003 Easy Retail revenue budget, 2025
  4. Q004 Easy Stores open at the end of 2025
  5. Q005 Easy Manufacturing units, 2025
  6. Q006 Easy Logistics trips, fiscal 2026
  7. Q007 Easy Budget owners
  8. Q008 Easy Submissions for the 2026 budget
  9. Q009 Easy Retail revenue, 2025
  10. Q010 Easy Logistics revenue budget, fiscal 2026
  11. Q011 Easy Manufacturing EBITDA, 2025
  12. Q012 Easy Group headcount, December 2025
  13. Q013 Medium Retail revenue against budget, 2025
  14. Q014 Medium Manufacturing EBITDA against budget, 2025
  15. Q015 Medium Logistics revenue against budget, fiscal 2026
  16. Q016 Medium Retail: biggest month-on-month rise of 2025
  17. Q017 Medium Group revenue growth, 2025
  18. Q018 Medium Retail against budget, January-September 2026
  19. Q019 Medium How good was Retail's June reforecast?
  20. Q020 Medium Manufacturing: the most accurate reforecast of 2025
  21. Q021 Medium Late first submissions, 2026 budget
  22. Q022 Medium Submissions after the lock
  23. Q023 Medium Submissions at night
  24. Q024 Medium Store-months lost to late openings, 2025
  25. Q025 Medium Fuel price during the spike
  26. Q026 Medium Retail headcount against plan, December 2025
  27. Q027 Medium Retail month-to-date at 15 March 2026
  28. Q028 Medium Month-to-date against a pro-rated budget
  29. Q029 Medium Weekend share of Retail sales, 2025
  30. Q030 Medium Cost centres that revised three times
  31. Q031 Hard Group revenue against plan, calendar 2025
  32. Q032 Hard Manufacturing volume variance from the drivers, 2025
  33. Q033 Hard Manufacturing mix variance from the drivers, 2025
  34. Q034 Hard Fuel price variance, fiscal 2025
  35. Q035 Hard Fuel usage variance, fiscal 2025
  36. Q036 Hard Retail forecast bias, 2025
  37. Q037 Hard Budgeted revenue of stores that were not open yet
  38. Q038 Hard Retail 2026 outlook against budget
  39. Q039 Hard How late were the late submissions?
  40. Q040 Hard Logistics EBITDA against budget, fiscal 2026
  41. Q041 Hard Retail's best trading day of 2025
  42. Q042 Hard What the audit adjustments did to Manufacturing's 2025 EBITDA
  43. Q043 Very Hard Group EBITDA against plan, calendar 2025
  44. Q044 Very Hard Retail like-for-like growth, 2025
  45. Q045 Very Hard The store furthest below budget, 2025
  46. Q046 Very Hard Monthly forecast error of Manufacturing's March reforecast
  47. Q047 Very Hard Logistics revenue per trip against plan, fiscal 2026
  48. Q048 Very Hard Full-year 2026 outlook for Retail and Manufacturing
  49. Q049 Very Hard Retail revenue per head against plan, 2025
  50. Q050 Very Hard Retail gross profit bridge 2025: the margin effect

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