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) | $ | 1,197,000 | $ | 1,827,000 | |
| Cost of goods sold (@ $37 per unit) | 703,000 | 1,073,000 | |||
| Gross margin | 494,000 | 754,000 | |||
| Selling and administrative expenses* | 308,000 | 338,000 | |||
| Net operating income | $ | 186,000 | $ | 416,000 | |
* $3 per unit variable; $251,000 fixed each year.
The company’s $37 unit product cost is computed as follows:
| Direct materials | $ | 8 | 
| Direct labor | 13 | |
| Variable manufacturing overhead | 3 | |
| Fixed manufacturing overhead ($312,000 ÷ 24,000 units) | 13 | |
| Absorption costing unit product cost | $ | 37 | 
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:
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.