Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781260417074
Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 2, Problem 40P
Mason Corporation began operations at the beginning of the current year. One of the company’s products, a refrigeration element, sells for $185 per unit. Information related to the current year’s activities follows.
Mason carries its finished-goods inventory at the average unit cost of production and is subject to a 30 percent income tax rate. There was no work in process at year-end.
Required:
- 1. Determine the cost of the December 31 finished-goods inventory.
- 2. Compute Mason’s net income for the current year ended December 31.
- 3. If next year’s production decreases to 23,000 units and general cost behavior patterns do not change, what is the likely effect on:
- a. The direct-labor cost of $37 per unit? Why?
- b. The fixed
manufacturing overhead cost of $600,000? Why? - c. The fixed selling and administrative cost of $860,000? Why?
- d. The average unit cost of production? Why?
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