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.		$4.50
Sugar	10 lbs.		14 lbs.		0.60
Standard labor time	0.4 hr.		0.5 hr.

	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate
Planned production	5,500 cases		12,000 cases
Standard labor rate	$13.00 per hr.		$13.00 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		12,500
	Actual Price per Pound		Actual Pounds Purchased and Used
Cocoa	$4.60		175,800
Sugar	0.55		221,300
	Actual Labor Rate		Actual Labor Hours Used
Dark chocolate	$12.50 per hr.		1,890
Light chocolate	13.50 per hr.		6,410

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		FavorableUnfavorable
	Direct materials quantity variance		FavorableUnfavorable
	Total direct materials cost variance		FavorableUnfavorable
b.	Direct labor rate variance		FavorableUnfavorable
	Direct labor time variance		FavorableUnfavorable
	Total direct labor cost variance		FavorableUnfavorable