Identify budget overages and savings to forecast future costs more accurately. Use variance analysis to pinpoint operational areas needing financial adjustment. Regularly update budgets based on ...

Many finance teams treat variance analysis as a box-checking exercise: Set a threshold, flag the swing, move on. That’s why so many controllers spend days chasing noise while risks slip through. It’s ...

How ANOVA helps ensure process data lead to accurate, defensible decisions. The two-sample t-test determines if two population means are equal. Typical applications involve testing whether a new ...

The record to report (R2R) process is foundational to financial transparency and compliance, encompassing activities such as accounting policy definition, cash management, journal entries, ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

President Trump’s erratic tariffs and other policies are already affecting consumers’ cost of living and costing businesses real money. President Trump announces new tariffs in Washington, D.C., on ...

The ongoing National Guard mission in Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the city, is costing roughly $1 million a day, experts estimated to CNN. Kate Kuzminski, ...

Ambiguity around medical equipment cleaning and handling is more than a compliance issue. It slows care, drives up costs and undermines staff confidence. During a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Initial analyses of the Trump administration’s proposed National ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says it has saved $160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at ...