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''Variance analysis''.
''Finance - alternative finance''.


(Better)/Worse.
(CCAF).


A label and sign convention in financial reporting.
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance is an international interdisciplinary academic research institute established to study alternative finance.


It is designed to aid the interpretation of differences or changes, by specifying a consistent convention.
It is part of the Cambridge Judge Business School in the UK.




Under the (B)/W convention, good news is denoted by a NEGATIVE (bracketed) number.
==See also==
*[[Alternative finance]]
*[[Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network]]
*[[Cambridge Judge Business School]]
*[[CFTRI]]
*[[Finance]]
*[[National Institute for Economic and Social Research]]
*[[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]


Good news is also known as a 'favourable variance'.


For example, a cost saving or an income improvement.
==External link==
*[https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/about-us/ Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance webpage]


A common example is a better actual result, compared with an earlier forecast.
[[Category:The_business_context]]
 
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
 
 
Under the (B)/W convention POSITIVE numbers are bad news, 'worse'.
 
Bad news is also known as an 'adverse' variance.
 
 
=====B/(W) convention=====
 
Sometimes the opposite convention is used.
 
This is the B/(W) convention.
 
Under the B/(W) convention - negative numbers are worse (adverse).
 
Under the B/(W) convention POSITIVE numbers are better and favourable.
 
 
== See also ==
*[[Adverse]]
*[[Inflow/(outflow)]]
*[[Mostly positive]]
*[[Variance]]
*[[Variance analysis]]
*[[YTD]]

Revision as of 16:02, 4 November 2020

Finance - alternative finance.

(CCAF).

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance is an international interdisciplinary academic research institute established to study alternative finance.

It is part of the Cambridge Judge Business School in the UK.


See also


External link