Your question is Explain Financial Variance to Marketing. Take a moment with it on the right.
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You’ve identified a meaningful budget-to-actual variance tied to a marketing initiative, and the marketing manager needs to understand what happened in order to make decisions. They are close to the business context but do not have a finance background.
How would you explain a complex financial variance to a marketing manager who does not have a finance background?