Question

Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis

I Love My Chocolate Company makes dark chocolate and light chocolate. Both products require cocoa and sugar. The following planning information has been made available:

Standard Amount per Case
	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate		Standard Price per Pound
Cocoa	12 lbs.		9 lbs.		$4.30
Sugar	10 lbs.		14 lbs.		0.60
Standard labor time	0.3 hr.		0.4 hr.

	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate
Planned production	5,500 cases		10,800 cases
Standard labor rate	$14.50 per hr.		$14.50 per hr.

I Love My Chocolate Company does not expect there to be any beginning or ending inventories of cocoa or sugar. At the end of the budget year, I Love My Chocolate Company had the following actual results:

	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate
Actual production (cases)	5,200		11,200
	Actual Price per Pound		Actual Pounds Purchased and Used
Cocoa	$4.40		164,000
Sugar	0.55		203,600
	Actual Labor Rate		Actual Labor Hours Used
Dark chocolate	$14.20 per hr.		1,420
Light chocolate	14.80 per hr.		4,590

Required:

1. Prepare the following variance analyses for both chocolates and the total, based on the actual results and production levels at the end of the budget year:

     a. Direct materials price variance, direct materials quantity variance, and total variance.

     b. Direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total variance.

Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

a.	Direct materials price variance	$fill in the blank 1	Unfavorable
	Direct materials quantity variance	$fill in the blank 3	Unfavorable
	Total direct materials cost variance	$fill in the blank 5	Unfavorable
b.	Direct labor rate variance	$fill in the blank 7	Unfavorable
	Direct labor time variance	$fill in the blank 9	Favorable
	Total direct labor cost variance	$fill in the blank 11	Unfavorable

Answer 1