Health / Health Insurance / Variances: The differences obtained from subtracting actual results from expected or budgeted results.
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Business / Finance / Standard Costs Plus Variances: A target or average cost that can be used either to value inventory or as a basis of comparison with actual costs. Standard costs can often be used to calculate cost of sales, in which case standard c MORE
Business / Finance / Variance: Loan made at an interest rate that fluctuates depending on a base interest rate, such as the prime rate or LIBOR. MORE
Business / Finance / Standard Deduction: The method of calculating cost of sales that compares the amounts of materials, direct labor and overhead projected in the Cost of Sales assumption (the standard costs) to expenses allocated to the Pr MORE
Business / Finance / Portfolio Variance: Weighted sum of the covariance and variances of the assets in a portfolio. MORE
Business / Finance / Magic Of Diversification: The effective reduction of risk (variance) of a portfolio, achieved without reduction to expected returns through the combination of assets with low or negative correlations (covariances). Related: Ma MORE
Business / Finance / Mean-Variance Criterion: The selection of portfolios based on the means and variances of their returns. The choice of the higher expected return portfolio for a given level of variance or the lower variance portfolio for a gi MORE