Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 8, Problem 38P
Chataqua Can Company manufactures metal cans used in the food-processing industry. A case of cans sells for $50. The variable costs of production for one case of cans are as follows:
Variable selling and administrative costs amount to $1 per case. Budgeted fixed manufacturing
Actual costs were the same as the budgeted costs.
Required:
- 1. Prepare operating income statements for Chataqua Can Company for its first three years of operations using:
- a. Absorption costing.
- b. Variable costing.
- 2. Reconcile Chataqua Can Company’s operating income reported under absorption and variable costing for each of its first three years of operation. Use the shortcut method.
- 3. Suppose that during Chataqua’s fourth year of operation actual production equals planned production, actual costs are as expected, and the company ends the year with no inventory on hand.
- a. What will be the difference between absorption-costing income and variable-costing income in year 4?
- b. What will be the relationship between total operating income for the four-year period as reported under absorption and variable costing? Explain.
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