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

	Year 1			Year 2
Sales (@ $62 per unit)	$	1,240,000		$	1,860,000
Cost of goods sold (@ $33 per unit)		660,000			990,000
Gross margin		580,000			870,000
Selling and administrative expenses*		312,000			342,000
Net operating income	$	\268,000\		$	528,000

* $3 per unit variable; $252,000 fixed each year.

The companys $33 unit product cost is computed as follows:

Direct materials	$	6
Direct labor		11
Variable manufacturing overhead		4
Fixed manufacturing overhead ($300,000 25,000 units)		12
Absorption costing unit product cost	$	33

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 operatons are:

	Year 1	Year 2
Units produced	25,000	25,000
Units sold	20,000	30,000

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.