During Heaton Companys first two years of operations, it reported absorption costing net operating income as follows:

	Year 1			Year 2
Sales (@ $60 per unit)	$	900,000		$	1,500,000
Cost of goods sold (@ $38 per unit)		570,000			950,000
Gross margin		330,000			550,000
Selling and administrative expenses*		294,000			324,000
Net operating income	$	36,000		$	226,000

* $3 per unit variable; $249,000 fixed each year.

The companys $38 unit product cost is computed as follows:

Direct materials	$	8
Direct labor		8
Variable manufacturing overhead		4
Fixed manufacturing overhead ($360,000 20,000 units)		18
Absorption costing unit product cost	$	38

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

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.