3 ints Leander Office Products Inc. produces and sells small storage and organizational products for office use. During the first month of operations, the products sold well. Andrea Leander, the owner of the company, was surprised to see a loss for the month on her income statement. This statement was prepared by a local bookkeeping service recommended to her by her bank manager. The statement follows: LEANDER OFFICE PRODUCTS INC. Income Statement Skipped Sales (50,600 units) Variable expenses: Variable cost of goods sold Variable selling and administrative expenses Contribution margin eBook Fixed expenses: Fixed manufacturing overhead Print ferences Fixed selling and administrative expenses Operating loss $273,240 $121,946 39,974 161,920 111,320 115,104 12,650 127,754 $(16,434) "Consists of direct materials, direct labour, and variable manufacturing overhead. Leander is discouraged over the loss shown for the month, particularly since she had planned to use the statement to encourage investors to purchase shares in the new company. A friend who is an accountant insists that the company should be using absorption costing rather than variable costing. He argues that if absorption costing had been used, the company would probably have reported a profit for the month. Selected cost data relating to the product and to the first month of operations follow: Units produced Units sold Direct materials Variable costs per unit: Direct Labour Variable manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative expenses 65,400 50,600 $ 1.06 $ 0.99 $ 0.36 $ 8.79 30 3 points Skipped Required: 1. Complete the following: a. Compute the unit product cost under absorption costing. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Unit product cost eBook b. Redo the company's income statement for the month using absorption costing. (Do not leave any empty spaces; input a O wherever it is required.) Print References Cost of goods sold o 0 $ 0 3 30 points Skipped eBook c. Reconcile the variable and absorption costing operating income (loss) figures. (Loss amounts should be entered with a minus sign.) Variable costing operating income (loss) Add: Fixed manufacturing overhead cost deferred in inventory under absorption costing Absorption costing operating income (loss) 2. This part of the question is not part of your Connect assignment. $ Print References 3. During the second month of operations, the company again produced 65,400 units but sold 80,200 units. (Assume no change in total fixed costs.) a. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the month using variable costing. Variable expenses: Fixed expenses: 0 0 0 S 0 3 b. Prepare an income statement for the month using absorption costing. (Do not leave any empty spaces: Input a O wherever it is required.) 30 points Skipped Cost of goods sold: eBook Print References 0 0 $ 0 c. Reconcile the variable costing and absorption costing operating income figures. Variable costing operating income (loss) Deduct: Fixed manufacturing overhead cost released from inventory under absorption costing Absorption costing operating income (loss) $ 0