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 (@ $63 per unit) | $ | 1,134,000 | $ | 1,764,000 | |
| Cost of goods sold (@ $38 per unit) | 684,000 | 1,064,000 | |||
| Gross margin | 450,000 | 700,000 | |||
| Selling and administrative expenses* | 306,000 | 336,000 | |||
| Net operating income | $ | 144,000 | $ | 364,000 | |
* $3 per unit variable; $252,000 fixed each year.
The company’s $38 unit product cost is computed as follows:
| Direct materials | $ | 8 | 
| Direct labor | 10 | |
| Variable manufacturing overhead | 1 | |
| Fixed manufacturing overhead ($437,000 ÷ 23,000 units) | 19 | |
| 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 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 
| Units sold | 18,000 | 28,000 | 
Required:
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.
| Computation of Unit Product Cost- Heaton Company | ||
| Year-1 | Year-2 | |
| Direct Material | $8.00 | $8.00 | 
| Direct Labour | $10.00 | $10.00 | 
| Variable Manufacturing Overhead | $1.00 | $1.00 | 
| Unit Product Cost | $19.00 | $19.00 | 
| Variable-Costing Income Statement | ||
| Year-1 | Year-2 | |
| No. of Unit | 18000 | 28000 | 
| Sales | $1,134,000.00 | $1,764,000.00 | 
| Less: Variable Cost | ||
| Variable cost of goods sold | $342,000.00 | $532,000.00 | 
| Variable S&A Expense @3 | $54,000.00 | $84,000.00 | 
| Contribution margin | $738,000.00 | $1,148,000.00 | 
| Less: Fixed Expense | ||
| Fixed Manufacturign Overhead | $437,000.00 | $437,000.00 | 
| Fixed S&A Expense | $252,000.00 | $252,000.00 | 
| Operating income | $49,000.00 | $459,000.00 | 
| Comparison Analysis | ||
| Year-1 | Year-2 | |
| Variable Costing Net Operating Income (loss) | $49,000.00 | $459,000.00 | 
| Add: Fixed Manufacturing Overhead cost deferred in Invenry Under Absorption Costing(5000*19) | $95,000.00 | -$95,000.00 | 
| Operating Income as per Variable costing | $144,000.00 | $364,000.00 |