For the coming year, Paulson Computers Inc. expects to produce 144,000 computers. Of these, 64,000 will be consumer (personal) computers and 80,000 will be small business computers. Common fixed overhead is $1,700,700. Additional information for the coming year is as follows:

	Consumer	Small Business
	Computers	Computers
Price	$ 643	$ 1,676
Unit direct materials	490	1,179
Unit direct labor	90	312
Unit variable overhead	22	49
Unit variable selling expense	35	66
Total direct fixed overhead	120,000	350,100

Fixed selling and administrative expense for Paulson Computers is $2,959,700 per year.

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Amount Descriptions
Common fixed overhead
Common selling and administrative
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Direct fixed overhead
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Operating income
Sales
Segment margin
Variable cost of goods sold
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1(a) Calculate the unit variable cost under variable costing.

	Consumer computers: ____unit variable cost
	Small business computers: ____unit variable cost

2. Prepare a segmented variable-costing income statement for next year. The segments correspond to product lines: consumer computers and small business computers. Refer to the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the exact wording of text items within your income statement. If an amount is negative, first enter a minus sign (-).

Paulson Computers Inc.

Segmented Variable-Costing Income Statement

For the Coming Year

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