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Translating Budget Variance Instructions

A corporate accounting manual includes the following rule for reconciling budget variances: 'the sum of 8 and -12, increased by 3.' To ensure this rule is correctly entered into a spreadsheet, describe the translation process. In your response, identify the two keywords that indicate mathematical operations, state which numbers should be grouped together by brackets, and provide the final simplified value of the adjustment.

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