f. calculate the actual plan operating profit/loss for the year:

Operating profit: $

Utease Corporation has several production plants nationwide. A newly opened plant in Dubuque produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows. Manufacturing costs (per unit based on expected activity of 27,000 units or 56,700 direct labor hours): Expected sales activity: 23,000 units at $450 per unit Desired ending inventories: 16% of sales Assume this is the first year of operations for the Dubuque plant. During the year, the company had the following activity