EXERCISE 6-3 Reconciliation of Absorption and Variable Costing Net Operating Incomes LÖ6-3 Jorgansen Lighting, Inc., manufactures heavy-duty street lighting systems for municipalities. The company uses variable costing for internal management reports and absorption costing for external reports. The company provided the following data: Inventories: Beginning (units) Ending (units) Variable costing net operating income Year 1 200 170 $1,080,400 Year 2 170 180 $1,032,400 a. Did inventories increase or decrease during Year 4? b. How much fixed manufacturing overhead cost was deferred or released from inventory during Year 4? Year 3 180 220 $996,400 The company's fixed manufacturing overhead per unit was constant at $560 for all three years. Required: 1. Calculate each year's absorption costing net operating income. Present your answer in the form of a reconciliation report. 2. Assume in Year 4 the company's variable costing net operating income was $984,400 and its absorption costing net operating income was $1,012,400.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
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ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
![EXERCISE 6-3 Reconciliation of Absorption and Variable Costing Net Operating Incomes LO6-3
Jorgansen Lighting, Inc., manufactures heavy-duty street lighting systems for municipalities. The company uses variable costing for
internal management reports and absorption costing for external reports. The company provided the following data:
Inventories:
Beginning (units)
Ending (units)
Variable costing net operating income
Year 1
200
170
$1,080,400
Year 2
170
180
$1,032,400
a. Did inventories increase or decrease during Year 4?
b. How much fixed manufacturing overhead cost was deferred or released from inventory during Year 4?
Year 3
180
220
$996,400
The company's fixed manufacturing overhead per unit was constant at $560 for all three years.
Required:
1. Calculate each year's absorption costing net operating income. Present your answer in the form of a reconciliation report.
2. Assume in Year 4 the company's variable costing net operating income was $984,400 and its absorption costing net operating income
was $1,012,400.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F0eaa7eaa-827a-4060-b545-b44894575a8a%2F6090a9ea-8565-43fb-9b85-093009e5b6ab%2F95bzsko_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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