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Soll/Ist Vergleich

English translation: projection vs. actual

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German term or phrase:Soll/Ist Vergleich
English translation:projection vs. actual

00:22 Dec 3, 2001
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
German term or phrase: Soll/Ist Vergleich
This is a System Message in a Project Management Tool
Patricia Gifford
Local time: 10:22
projection vs. actual
Explanation:
Comparison of projections to actual results - I chose a shorter version to fit the message format.
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 10:22
Grading comment
Ralph, thank you for answering my question. Your answer fits best with my context. Thanks again for your help!
And thanks to all the other pros, if the system allowed it, I would love to award points to everybody

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2projection vs. actual
Ralf Lemster
4 +1set-actual comparison
Pro Lingua
5comparison of target / actual values
Eva Blanar
5variance comparison
Beth Kantus
4 -1Target/Realization comparison
Sven Petersson
4 -1Target/Actual
Hermeneutica


  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Target/Realization comparison


Explanation:
Implicit in answer.


    My geriatric brain.
Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 10:22
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Pro Lingua: What do you tink about set/actual comparison?
2 hrs
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
projection vs. actual


Explanation:
Comparison of projections to actual results - I chose a shorter version to fit the message format.


    Own experience
Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 10:22
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Ralph, thank you for answering my question. Your answer fits best with my context. Thanks again for your help!
And thanks to all the other pros, if the system allowed it, I would love to award points to everybody

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alison kennedy (X)
32 mins
agree  Pro Lingua: What do you tink about set/actual comparison?
2 hrs
  -> Might work, but I haven't seen "set" in this context yet
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Target/Actual


Explanation:
None needed, I hope, after your other responses ... :)

Best,

Dee

Hermeneutica
Switzerland
Local time: 10:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Pro Lingua: What do you tink about set/actual comparison?
8 mins
  -> Should have clarified, my response is based on my years as a systems project management/financial analyst at a major international bank
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
set-actual comparison


Explanation:
or set/actual comparison

Analysis: Evaluation of the starting situation / set-actual comparison
Ref: http://www.infoart.ch/efurther-tr.htm

Pro Lingua
Local time: 10:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Slovak

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hermeneutica: to your comment to mine, not a lot ... sorry ... what context have you seen "set" in? I have never.
1 hr
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
comparison of target / actual values


Explanation:
By the way, Soll/Ist Vergleich might also mean a comparison of "desirable" to "present" parameters!

Eva Blanar
Hungary
Local time: 10:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 4
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
variance comparison


Explanation:
The above is straight out of Ernst.

In accounting contexts, a Soll-Ist Vergleich is a variance analysis.

Target-performance comparison would be an alternative for technical texts.

Ref: BMW terminology database (TERMI), July 2000

Beth Kantus
United States
Local time: 04:22
Native speaker of: English
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