In: Accounting
During Heaton Company’s first two years of operations, it reported absorption costing net operating income as follows:
Year 1 | Year 2 | ||||
Sales (@ $60 per unit) | $ | 900,000 | $ | 1,500,000 | |
Cost of goods sold (@ $38 per unit) | 570,000 | 950,000 | |||
Gross margin | 330,000 | 550,000 | |||
Selling and administrative expenses* | 294,000 | 324,000 | |||
Net operating income | $ | 36,000 | $ | 226,000 | |
* $3 per unit variable; $249,000 fixed each year.
The company’s $38 unit product cost is computed as follows:
Direct materials | $ | 8 |
Direct labor | 8 | |
Variable manufacturing overhead | 4 | |
Fixed manufacturing overhead ($360,000 ÷ 20,000 units) | 18 | |
Absorption costing unit product cost | $ | 38 |
Forty percent of fixed manufacturing overhead consists of wages and salaries; the remainder consists of depreciation charges on production equipment and buildings.
Production and cost data for the first two years of operations are:
Year 1 | Year 2 | |
Units produced | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Units sold | 15,000 | 25,000 |
1. Using variable costing, what is the unit product cost for both years?
2. What is the variable costing net operating income in Year 1 and in Year 2?
3. Reconcile the absorption costing and the variable costing net operating income figures for each year.
1. calculation of unit product cost under variable costing.
a.Direct material. - 8
b.Direct labour. - 8
c.variable overheads-4
d.total variable cost (a+b+c)= 20
under variable costing fixed costs are not included only variable costs are considered for arriving at per unit cost.
2.
year1 | year2 | |
a.sale per unit | 60 | 60 |
b.Cost of goods sold(see working) | 20 | 20 |
c.contribution per units(a-b) | 40 | 40 |
working.
cost of goods sold = total variable cost per unit. as computed above .
year 1 | year2 | |
a.total contribution of goods sold |
40*15000= 600000 |
40*25000 =1000000 |
b.fixed cost | 360000 | 360000 |
c.selling and administration overhead | 249000 | 249000 |
d.net operating income(a-b-c) | (9000) | 391000 |
3.
absorption costing
year1 | year2 | |
a.total contribution ie, 60-38=22*15000 year1 60-38=22*25000 yr2 |
330000 | 550000 |
b.selling and administration overhead | 249000 |
249000 |
c.net operating income,(a-b) | 81000 | 301000 |
total income for year 1and 2 will be 81000+301000=382000 .
under variable costing total income for year1and 2 will be 391000-9000=382000.