Some alternative methods to variance analysis in budget planning include zero-based budgeting, where every expense must be justified for each new period, and flexible budgeting, which adjusts to changes in volume and activity. Another method is incremental budgeting, which uses the previous period's budget as a base and adjusts for future predictions. There's also activity-based budgeting, which allocates costs to individual activities based on their use of resources.
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