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

	Year 1			Year 2
Sales (@ $64 per unit)	$	1,216,000		$	1,856,000
Cost of goods sold (@ $28 per unit)		532,000			812,000
Gross margin		684,000			1,044,000
Selling and administrative expenses*		310,000			340,000
Net operating income	$	374,000		$	704,000

* $3 per unit variable; $253,000 fixed each year.

The companys $28 unit product cost is computed as follows:

Direct materials	$	6
Direct labor		8
Variable manufacturing overhead		2
Fixed manufacturing overhead ($288,000 24,000 units)		12
Absorption costing unit product cost	$	28

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	24,000	24,000
Units sold	19,000	29,000

Required:

1. Using variable costing, what is the unit product cost for both years?

2. What is the variable costing net operating income in Year 1 and in Year 2?

3. Reconcile the absorption costing and the variable costing net operating income figures for each year.