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 Cocoa Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Standard Price per Pound 9 lb. 6 lb. 7 lb. 11 lb. $5.2 0.6 Sugar Standard labor 0.4 hr. 0.5 hr. time Planned production Standard labor rate Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate 4,200 cases $16.5 per hr. 10,000 cases $16.5 per hr. I Love My Chocolate 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 Actual production (cases) Light Chocolate 10,400 Actual Pounds Purchased and Used 4,000 Actual Price per Pound Cocoa Sugar $5.3 0.55 98,900 138,800 Actual Labor Rate Actual Labor Hours Used Dark chocolate $16.2 per hr. 16.8 per hr. 1,460 5,330 Light chocolate Required: Prepare the following variance analyses for both chocolates and 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. a. Direct materials price variance Direct materials quantity variance Total direct materials cost variance b. Direct labor rate variance Direct labor time variance. Total direct labor cost variance 2. The variance analyses should be based on the 2,950 ✓ Unfavorable amounts at performance evaluation should reflect the change in direct materials and direct labor that will be required for the volumes. The budget must flex with the volume changes. If the volume is different from the planned volume, as it was in this case 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).