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 (@ $64 per unit) | $ | 960,000 | $ | 1,600,000 | |
Cost of goods sold (@ $30 per unit) | 450,000 | 750,000 | |||
Gross margin | 510,000 | 850,000 | |||
Selling and administrative expenses* | 296,000 | 326,000 | |||
Net operating income | $ | 214,000 | $ | 524,000 | |
* $3 per unit variable; $251,000 fixed each year.
The company’s $30 unit product cost is computed as follows:
Direct materials | $ | 5 |
Direct labor | 9 | |
Variable manufacturing overhead | 3 | |
Fixed manufacturing overhead ($260,000 ÷ 20,000 units) | 13 | |
Absorption costing unit product cost | $ | 30 |
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 |
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.