Leander Office Products Inc. produces and sells small storage and organizational products for office use. During the first month of operations, the products sold well. Andrea Leander, the owner of the company, was surprised to see a loss for the month on her Income statement. This statement was prepared by a local bookkeeping service recommended to her by her bank manager. The statement follows: LEANDER OPPICE PRODUCTS INC. Income Statement Sales (44,600 unita) $258,680 Variable expenses Variable cost of goods sold. $103,918 Variable selling and administrative expenses 55,304 159, 222 Contribution margin 99,458 Fixed expenses Fixed manufacturing overhead 91,932 Fixed selling and administrative expenses 24,084 116,016 Operating loss S(16,558) *Consists of direct materials, direct labour, and variable manufacturing overhead. Leander is discouraged over the loss shown for the month, particularly since she had planned to use the statement to encourage investors to purchase stock in the new company. A friend who is an accountant insists that the company should be using absorption costing rather than variable costing. He argues that if absorption costing had been used, the company would probably have reported a profit for the month. Selected cost data relating to the product and to the first month of operations follow 56,400 44,600 Units produced Units Bold Variable conta per unit: Direct materials Direct labour Variable manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative expenses $ 1.10 S 0.85 $ 0.38 5 .24 Required: 1. Complete the following: a. Compute the unit product cost under absorption costing. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Unit product cool 1.63 b. Redo the company's income statement for the month using absorption costing. (Do not leave any empty spaces; Input a 0 wherever it is required.) 0 Sales Cost of goods sold: Beginning inventory Add: Cost of goods manufactured Goods available for sale Less: Ending inventory Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Operating income 0 0 $ 0 c. Reconcile the variable and absorption costing operating income (loss) figures. (Loss amounts should be entered with a minus slgn.) Variable costing operating income (loss) Add: Fixed manufacturing overhead cost deferred in inventory under absorption costing Absorption costing operating income (loss) $ 0 2. Not available in Connect. 3. During the second month of operations, the company again produced 56,400 units but sold 68 200 units. (Assume no change in total fixed costs.) a. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the month using variable costing, Variable expenses 0 0 Fixed expenses 0 0 b. Prepare an income statement for the month using absorption costing. (Do not leave any empty spaces: Input a O wherever it is required.) Cost of goods sold: 0 0 0 $ 0 c. Reconcile the variable costing and absorption costing operating income figures. Variable costing operating income (ons) Deduct: Fixed manufacturing overhead cost released from inventory under absorption costing Absorption coating operating income (los $ 0
