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 Light Standard Price per Chocolate Chocolate Pound Cocoa 6 lb. 55 Sugar 7 lb. 11 lb. 0.6 Standard labor time 0.3 hr. 0.4 hr. 9 lb. Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Planned production 4,600 cases 10,700 cases Standard labor rate $16.5 per hr. $16.5 per hr. $ I Love My Chocolate 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 4,400 11,100 (cases) Actual Price per Actual Pounds Purchased and Pound Used Cocoa $5.1 106,700 149,100 Sugar 0.55 Actual Labor Hours Used Dark chocolate Light chocolate Required: Actual Labor Rate $15 per hr 17 per hr. 1,200 4,550 Prepare the following variance analyses for both chocolates and 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. If there is no variance, enter a zero. a. Direct materials price variance s Direct materials quantity variance Total direct materials cost variance s b. Direct labor rate variance s Direct labor time variance S Total direct labor cost variance s 2. The variance analyses should be based on the amounts at should reflect the change in direct materials and direct labor that will be required for the volumes. The budget must flex with the volume changes. If the volume is different from the planned volume, as it was in this case, then the budget used for performance evaluation production. In this way, spending from volume changes can be separated from efficiency and price variances