Understanding EBITDA Drivers: Improve Your Forecasting & Business Performance

Oftentimes, finance teams pull the variance report, see that EBITDA missed or beat plan, and use surface-level numbers to explain what happened. But tracing those variances back to their operational drivers is how you get the real “why” behind every hit, miss, or overperformance.

In this session, join Microsoft Excel MVP and finance educator, Carl Seidman, CPA, as he shows you how to move beyond surface-level variance reporting to understand what’s actually driving your EBITDA, including:

  • How to distinguish plan-vs-actual and prior plan-vs-actual variances
  • How to trace EBITDA variances back to their underlying operational drivers
  • How to convert variance findings into clear, action-oriented guidance for operations teams and leadership
  • How to build a self-updating variance model in Excel using dynamic techniques

About the speakers

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Carl Seidman
Creator, The FP&A Mastery Signature Program

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