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 9 lbs. 6 lbs. $5.40 Sugar 7 lbs. 11 lbs. 0.60 Standard labor time 0.3 hr. 0.4 hr. Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Planned production 5,000 cases 11,000 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) 4,800 11,400 Actual Price per Pound Actual Pounds Purchased and Used 112,200 $5.50 Cocoa 0.55 155,000 Sugar Actual Labor Rate Actual Labor Hours Used 1,310 Dark chocolate $14.00 per hr. 4,670 15.00 per hr. Light chocolate 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. Unfavorable Direct materials price variance a. Direct materials quantity variance Unfavorable Total direct materials cost variance Unfavorable b. Direct labor rate variance 1,680 Unfavorable Favorable Direct labor time variance Total direct labor cost variance Unfavorable 2. The variance analyses should be based on the standard amounts at actual volumes. The budget must flex with the volume changes. If the actual 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 V production. In this way, spending from volume changes can be separated from efficiency and price variances. Feedback Check My Work Unfavorable variances can be thought of as increasing costs (a debit). Favorable variances can be thought of as decreasing costs (a credit). Review how actual production is analyzed by using standard amounts. Lor