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Event Budget Versus Actuals Variance Audit

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Compare an event's planned budget with real spending, explain variances line by line, and flag overruns and missing receipts for the next event.

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Please audit the finances of an event I organised by comparing the planned budget with what we actually spent and earned. I will paste the figures; you check the arithmetic and point out patterns.

Inputs: event name and date [EVENT_NAME_AND_DATE], budget lines with planned amounts [BUDGET_LINES], actual spending and income lines [ACTUAL_LINES], notes on any items paid by individuals and not yet reimbursed [UNREIMBURSED_ITEMS], and the tolerance I consider acceptable for any line, as a percent [TOLERANCE_PERCENT].

Produce a variance table with columns Category, Planned, Actual, Difference, Percent difference, Within tolerance?, Likely reason (only if my notes support it, otherwise "unknown"), Receipt on file?. Total income and total costs and show the arithmetic, including the net result against plan. Then list the top three overspends and the top three underspends, followed by lines where actual spending is missing, duplicated or unclear. Add a short section called "Questions for the team" and a "Budget changes for next time" section with no more than five concrete changes tied to the evidence. End with a one-paragraph summary of up to 90 words suitable for a committee.

Guardrails: do not invent figures or reasons. If the numbers do not add up, say so and show where. Mark any tax or accounting treatment as [VERIFY]. This is a review aid, not accounting or tax advice. Do not alter the records.

Add a worked example with invented figures: catering planned 800.00, actual 920.00, tolerance 10 percent. Show the 120.00 difference, 15 percent, and the flag.

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Variance table (invented)
Catering: planned 800.00, actual 920.00, difference +120.00, +15.0 percent (120 / 800). Tolerance 10 percent. Outside tolerance. Reason: unknown. Receipt: yes.
Venue hire: planned 500.00, actual 500.00, difference 0.00. Within tolerance.
Tickets income: planned 1,400.00, actual 1,260.00, difference -140.00, -10.0 percent. At the limit.
Net result: income 1,260.00 minus costs 1,420.00 = -160.00, against a planned +100.00. Gap: 260.00.
Question for the team: was the catering order increased after the final headcount?
Next time: set a catering cap tied to confirmed numbers.

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