Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis I Love My Chocolate

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:

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:

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. If there is no variance, enter a zero.

2. The variance analyses should be based on the (ACUTAL 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.

Solution

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