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Expenditure vs Budget

Metadata

Property Value
Type kpi
Domain finance
Status active
Version 1.0
Owner Finance Manager
Steward Finance Team

Definition

The relationship between actual expenditure and budgeted expenditure, used to assess spending discipline across accounts and cost centres.

Purpose

Supports budgeting and expenditure control decisions and flags overspending before it materially affects financial performance.

Target

Expenditure variance within an agreed tolerance of budget.

Thresholds

critical: Expenditure variance exceeds agreed tolerance without an approved reforecast
warning: Expenditure variance approaching agreed tolerance
target: Expenditure within budget tolerance

Supporting Metrics

- finance.expenditure
- finance.expenditure_variance

Dimensions

- department
- cost_centre
- period

Review Frequency

Monthly

Source

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