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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- Question Book PDF DD-BVA-003_Question_Book.pdf
- Dataset Documentation / Data Dictionary XLSX DD-BVA-003_Data_Dictionary.xlsx
- Business Introduction PDF DD-BVA-003_Business_Introduction.pdf
- Relationship Diagram PDF DD-BVA-003_Relationship_Model.pdf
- Raw fact data DD-BVA-003_FactActual.parquet
- Dimension / supporting data DD-BVA-003_Dimensions.zip
Questions
Open one to discuss it- Q001 Easy Group revenue for 2025
- Q002 Easy Plan versions
- Q003 Easy Retail revenue budget, 2025
- Q004 Easy Stores open at the end of 2025
- Q005 Easy Manufacturing units, 2025
- Q006 Easy Logistics trips, fiscal 2026
- Q007 Easy Budget owners
- Q008 Easy Submissions for the 2026 budget
- Q009 Easy Retail revenue, 2025
- Q010 Easy Logistics revenue budget, fiscal 2026
- Q011 Easy Manufacturing EBITDA, 2025
- Q012 Easy Group headcount, December 2025
- Q013 Medium Retail revenue against budget, 2025
- Q014 Medium Manufacturing EBITDA against budget, 2025
- Q015 Medium Logistics revenue against budget, fiscal 2026
- Q016 Medium Retail: biggest month-on-month rise of 2025
- Q017 Medium Group revenue growth, 2025
- Q018 Medium Retail against budget, January-September 2026
- Q019 Medium How good was Retail's June reforecast?
- Q020 Medium Manufacturing: the most accurate reforecast of 2025
- Q021 Medium Late first submissions, 2026 budget
- Q022 Medium Submissions after the lock
- Q023 Medium Submissions at night
- Q024 Medium Store-months lost to late openings, 2025
- Q025 Medium Fuel price during the spike
- Q026 Medium Retail headcount against plan, December 2025
- Q027 Medium Retail month-to-date at 15 March 2026
- Q028 Medium Month-to-date against a pro-rated budget
- Q029 Medium Weekend share of Retail sales, 2025
- Q030 Medium Cost centres that revised three times
- Q031 Hard Group revenue against plan, calendar 2025
- Q032 Hard Manufacturing volume variance from the drivers, 2025
- Q033 Hard Manufacturing mix variance from the drivers, 2025
- Q034 Hard Fuel price variance, fiscal 2025
- Q035 Hard Fuel usage variance, fiscal 2025
- Q036 Hard Retail forecast bias, 2025
- Q037 Hard Budgeted revenue of stores that were not open yet
- Q038 Hard Retail 2026 outlook against budget
- Q039 Hard How late were the late submissions?
- Q040 Hard Logistics EBITDA against budget, fiscal 2026
- Q041 Hard Retail's best trading day of 2025
- Q042 Hard What the audit adjustments did to Manufacturing's 2025 EBITDA
- Q043 Very Hard Group EBITDA against plan, calendar 2025
- Q044 Very Hard Retail like-for-like growth, 2025
- Q045 Very Hard The store furthest below budget, 2025
- Q046 Very Hard Monthly forecast error of Manufacturing's March reforecast
- Q047 Very Hard Logistics revenue per trip against plan, fiscal 2026
- Q048 Very Hard Full-year 2026 outlook for Retail and Manufacturing
- Q049 Very Hard Retail revenue per head against plan, 2025
- Q050 Very Hard Retail gross profit bridge 2025: the margin effect
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