$ 1,120,000 Income statement For the Quarter Ended March 31 Sales (28,000 units) Variable expenses: Variable cost of goods sold $ 462,000 Variable selling and administrative 168,000 Contribution margin Fixed expenses Fixed manufacturing overhead 300,000 Fixed selling and administrative 200,000 Net operating loss 630,000 490,000 500,000 (10,000) $ nces Ms. Tyler is discouraged over the loss shown for the quarter, particularly because she had planned to use the statement as support for a bank loan. Another friend, a CPA, insists that the company should be using absorption costing rather than variable costing and argues that if absorption costing had been used the company probably would have reported at least some profit for the quarter. At this point, Ms. Tyler is manufacturing only one product-a swimsuit. Production and cost data relating to the swimsuit for the first quarter follow: 30,000 28,000 Units produced Units sold Variable costs per unit Direct paterials Direct Labor Variable manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative $ 3.50 $ 12.00 $ 1.00 $ 6.00 Required: 1. Complete the following: a. Compute the unit product cost under absorption costing. b. What is the company's absorption costing net operating Income (loss) for the quarter? c. Reconcile the variable and absorption costing net operating income (loss) figures. 3. During the second quarter of operations, the company again produced 30,000 units but sold 32,000 units. (Assume no change in total fixed costs.) Mehmen Annemareline the