Variance Analysis and Excel

[Mur]

Cell A1 is 10 and input
Cell B1 is 5 another input
Cell C2 is 5 a formula A1 - B1

I want to only look at variances that are greater than 25% of cell A1 and i
can get that to work but if cell A1 is less than B1 then I can't get the
negative number to work. I want to look at all variances that are greater
than 25% of Cell A1 regardless of whether it plus or minus...

 

[Fred Smith]

Assuming your variance is in C2, try this:
=if(abs(c2)/Abs(a1)>.25,...)

Regards,
Fred