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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) | $ | 1,197,000 | $ | 1,827,000 | |
| Cost of goods sold (@ $26 per unit) | 494,000 | 754,000 | |||
| Gross margin | 703,000 | 1,073,000 | |||
| Selling and administrative expenses* | 304,000 | 334,000 | |||
| Net operating income | $ | 399,000 | $ | 739,000 | |
* $3 per unit variable; $247,000 fixed each year.
The company’s $26 unit product cost is computed as follows:
| Direct materials | $ | 5 | 
| Direct labor | 9 | |
| Variable manufacturing overhead | 1 | |
| Fixed manufacturing overhead ($264,000 ÷ 24,000 units) | 11 | |
| Absorption costing unit product cost | $ | 26 | 
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 | 24,000 | 24,000 | 
| Units sold | 19,000 | 29,000 | 
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
| 2-a. Unit product cost under variable costing = Direct material + Direct labor +variable manufacturing overheads | ||
| Year 1 | Year 2 | |
| Unit product cost | 15 | 15 | 
| Variable costing income statement | ||
| Units sold | 19000 | 29000 | 
| Year 1 | Year 2 | |
| Sales | 1,197,000 | 1,827,000 | 
| Variable expenses | ||
| Variable COGS | 285,000 | 435,000 | 
| Variable Selling and Admin | 57,000 | 87,000 | 
| Total variable expenses | 342,000 | 522,000 | 
| Contribution Margin | 855,000 | 1,305,000 | 
| Fixed Expenses | ||
| Fixed manufacturing overhead | 264,000 | 264,000 | 
| Fixed selling and admin | 247,000 | 247,000 | 
| Total Fixed expenses | 511,000 | 511,000 | 
| Net Operating Income | 344000 | 794,000 | 
| Reconciliation | ||
| Year 1 | Year 2 | |
| Variable costing net income | 344,000 | 794,000 | 
| Add: Fixed Manufactured overhead cost deferred 5000*264000/24000 | 55,000 | |
| Less: Fixed Manufactured overhead cost released | 55,000 | |
| Absorption costing net income | 399,000 | 739,000 |