Instructions:

You are an FP&A analyst working for Dream Desk, a company building and selling desks.

You have a meeting with the management to present the sales of January 2023.

You need to prepare a document in Excel showing the variances against budget.

Add anything which would be relevant to your discussion with the management.

Deliverable expected: a one pager in Excel that could be copied to a PowerPoint presentation and showed to management.

Solution: open only once you have performed the variance analysis yourself.