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	9 lbs.		6 lbs.		$5.20
Sugar	7 lbs.		11 lbs.		0.60
Standard labor time	0.4 hr.		0.5 hr.

	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate
Planned production	4,400 cases		11,100 cases
Standard labor rate	$15.00 per hr.		$15.00 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)	4,200		11,500
	Actual Price per Pound		Actual Pounds Purchased and Used
Cocoa	$5.30		107,300
Sugar	0.55		152,000
	Actual Labor Rate		Actual Labor Hours Used
Dark chocolate	$14.70 per hr.		1,530
Light chocolate	15.30 per hr.		5,890

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	$	Favorable or unfavorable?
	Direct materials quantity variance	$	Favorable or unfavorable?
	Total direct materials cost variance	$	Favorable or unfavorable?
b.	Direct labor rate variance	$	Favorable or unfavorable?
	Direct labor time variance	$	Favorable or unfavorable?
	Total direct labor cost variance	$	Favorable or unfavorable?

2. The variance analyses should be based on the (actual or standard?) amounts at (actual or standard?) volumes. The budget must flex with the volume changes. If the (actual or standard?) volume is different from the planned volume, as it was in this case, then the budget used for performance evaluation should reflect the change in direct materials and direct labor that will be required for the (actual or standard?) production. In this way, spending from volume changes can be separated from efficiency and price variances.