High Country, Inc., produces and sells many recreational products. The company has just opened a new plant to produce a folding camp cot that will be marketed throughout the United States. The following cost and revenue data relate to May, the first month of the plant’s operation:           Beginning inventory   0   Units produced   42,000   Units sold   37,000   Selling price per unit   $76   Selling and administrative expenses:       Variable per unit   $3   Fixed (per month) $ 557,000   Manufacturing costs:       Direct materials cost per unit   $16   Direct labor cost per unit   $9   Variable manufacturing overhead cost per unit   $1   Fixed manufacturing overhead cost (per month) $ 672,000       Management is anxious to see how profitable the new camp cot will be and has asked that an income statement be prepared for May.   Required:   1. Assume that the company uses absorption costing. a. Determine the unit product cost.     Unit product cost       b. Prepare an income statement for May.     High Country, Inc. Absorption Costing Income Statement                         2. Assume that the company uses variable costing. a. Determine the unit product cost.     Unit product cost       b. Prepare a contribution format income statement for May.     High Country, Inc. Variable Costing Income Statement       Variable expenses:                                   Fixed expenses:

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High Country, Inc., produces and sells many recreational products. The company has just opened a new plant to produce a folding camp cot that will be marketed throughout the United States. The following cost and revenue data relate to May, the first month of the plant’s operation:

 

       
Beginning inventory   0  
Units produced   42,000  
Units sold   37,000  
Selling price per unit   $76  
Selling and administrative expenses:      
Variable per unit   $3  
Fixed (per month) $ 557,000  
Manufacturing costs:      
Direct materials cost per unit   $16  
Direct labor cost per unit   $9  
Variable manufacturing overhead cost per unit   $1  
Fixed manufacturing overhead cost (per month) $ 672,000  
 

 

Management is anxious to see how profitable the new camp cot will be and has asked that an income statement be prepared for May.

 

Required:  

1. Assume that the company uses absorption costing.

a. Determine the unit product cost.

 
 
Unit product cost  

 

 

b. Prepare an income statement for May.

 
 
High Country, Inc.
Absorption Costing Income Statement
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

2. Assume that the company uses variable costing.

a. Determine the unit product cost.

 
 
Unit product cost  

 

 

b. Prepare a contribution format income statement for May.

 
 
High Country, Inc.
Variable Costing Income Statement
     
Variable expenses:    
     
     
     
     
     
Fixed expenses:    
     
     
     
     
     

 

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