During Heaton Company's first two years of operations, it reported absorption costing net operating income as follows: Year 1 Year 2 Sales (9 $63 per unit) 5 1,071,000 5 1,701,000 Cost of goods sold (0 $41 per unit) 697,000 1,107,000 Gross margin 374,000 594,000 Selling and administrative expenses* 298,000 328,000 Net operating income 3 761000 5 255:000 * $3 per unit variable; $247,000 xed each year. The company's $41 unit product cost is computed as follows: Direct materials $ 8 Direct labor 11 Variable manufacturing overhead 4 Fixed manufacturing overhead ($396,000 + 22,000 units) 13 Absorption costing unit product cost $ 41 ' 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 rst two years of operations are: Year 1 Year 2 Units produced 22,000 22,000 Units sold 17,000 27,000 ' Required: 1. Using variable costing, what is the unit product cost for both years? 2. What is the variable costing net operating income in Year1 and in Year 2? 3. Reconcile the absorption costing and the variable costing net operating income gures for each year