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Phoniex University
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flexible budgeting and variance analysis
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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
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dark Chocolate |
Light Chocolate |
Standard price per pound |
|
Cocoa |
12 lbs. |
8 lbs. |
$7.25 |
|
Sugar Standard labor time |
10 lbs. 0.50 hr. |
14 lbs. 0.60 hr. |
1.40 |
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dark Chocolate |
Light Chocolate |
|
Planned production Standard labor rate |
4,700 cases $15.50 per hr. |
11,000 cases $15.50 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 Com- pany had the following actual  results:
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 |
dark Chocolate |
Light Chocolate |
|
Actual production (cases) |
5,000 |
10,000 |
|
 |
actual price per pound |
actual pounds purchased and used |
|
Cocoa |
$7.33 |
140,300 |
|
Sugar |
1.35 |
188,000 |
|
 |
actual Labor Rate |
actual Labor hours used |
|
Dark chocolate |
$15.25 per hr. |
2,360 |
|
Light chocolate |
15.80 per hr. |
6,120 |
instructions
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, quantity, and total variance.
b.  Direct labor rate, time, and total variance.
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Why are the standard amounts in part (1) based on the actual production for the year instead of the planned production for the year?
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