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How to calculate revenue and expense variance to the budget Before analyzing what budget variances mean, they must first be calculated.

In finance, the variance is commonly used to calculate how each asset in a portfolio performs in relation to the other assets in the portfolio.

Learn how to calculate Value at Risk (VaR) to effectively assess financial risks in portfolios, using historical, variance-covariance, and Monte Carlo methods.

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