Consider the following information pertaining to a years operations of Hamilton Manufacturing: Units sold ....................................................................................1,400 Units produced
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Consider the following information pertaining to a year’s operations of Hamilton Manufacturing:
Units sold ....................................................................................1,400
Units produced ..........................................................................1,900
Direct labour ............................................................................$4,500
Direct materials used ...............................................................3,500
Fixed manufacturing overhead ..............................................2,850
Variable manufacturing overhead ............................................300
Selling and administrative expenses (all fixed) .......................700
Beginning inventories ....................................................................0
Contribution margin ...............................................................5,600
Direct-materials inventory, end................................................800
There are no work-in-process inventories.
1. What is the ending finished-goods inventory cost under absorption costing?
2. What is the ending finished-goods inventory cost under variable costing?
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...
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Management Accounting
ISBN: 978-0132570848
6th Canadian edition
Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, William O. Stratton, Phillip Beaulieu