ch 9 application (7)

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.		$5.10
Sugar	7 lbs.		11 lbs.		0.60
Standard labor time	0.4 hr.		0.5 hr.

	Dark Chocolate		Light Chocolate
Planned production	5,800 cases		12,800 cases
Standard labor rate	$16.50 per hr.		$16.50 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)	5,500		13,300
	Actual Price per Pound		Actual Pounds Purchased and Used
Cocoa	$5.20		129,900
Sugar	0.55		180,200
	Actual Labor Rate		Actual Labor Hours Used
Dark chocolate	$16.00 per hr.		2,000
Light chocolate	17.00 per hr.		6,820

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	FavorableUnfavorable
	Direct materials quantity variance	$fill in the blank 3	FavorableUnfavorable
	Total direct materials cost variance	$fill in the blank 5	FavorableUnfavorable
b.	Direct labor rate variance	$fill in the blank 7	FavorableUnfavorable
	Direct labor time variance	$fill in the blank 9	FavorableUnfavorable
	Total direct labor cost variance	$fill in the blank 11	FavorableUnfavorable