The favorable flexible-budget variance of $408 has two offsetting components:
(a) favorable price variance of $1,120––reflects the $0.82 actual purchase cost being lower than the $0.89 budgeted purchase cost per pound.
(b) unfavorable efficiency variance of $712––reflects the actual materials yield of 3.80 scones per pound of pumpkin (60,800 ÷ 16,000 = 3.80) being less than the budgeted yield of 4.00 (60,000 ÷ 15,000 = 4.00). The company used more pumpkins (materials) to make the scones than was budgeted.