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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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  • Business Introduction PDF DD-BVA-003_Business_Introduction.pdf 616.4 KB · v1.0
  • Relationship Diagram PDF DD-BVA-003_Relationship_Model.pdf 614.9 KB · v1.0
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  • Dimension / supporting data DD-BVA-003_Dimensions.zip 257.3 KB · v1.0

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  1. Q031 Hard Group revenue against plan, calendar 2025
  2. Q032 Hard Manufacturing volume variance from the drivers, 2025
  3. Q033 Hard Manufacturing mix variance from the drivers, 2025
  4. Q034 Hard Fuel price variance, fiscal 2025
  5. Q035 Hard Fuel usage variance, fiscal 2025
  6. Q036 Hard Retail forecast bias, 2025
  7. Q037 Hard Budgeted revenue of stores that were not open yet
  8. Q038 Hard Retail 2026 outlook against budget
  9. Q039 Hard How late were the late submissions?
  10. Q040 Hard Logistics EBITDA against budget, fiscal 2026
  11. Q041 Hard Retail's best trading day of 2025
  12. Q042 Hard What the audit adjustments did to Manufacturing's 2025 EBITDA

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