26) Dallavalle Corporation manufactures and sells one product. The following information
pertains to the company’s first year of operations:
Fixed manufacturing overhead
Fixed selling and administrative expenses
The company does not have any variable manufacturing overhead costs or variable selling and
administrative expenses. During its first year of operations, the company produced 32,000 units
and sold 31,000 units. The company’s only product is sold for $238 per unit.
The company is considering using either super-variable costing or an absorption costing system
that assigns $10 of direct labor cost and $67 of fixed manufacturing overhead to each unit that is
produced. Which of the following statements is true regarding the net operating income in the
first year?
A) Super-variable costing net operating income exceeds absorption costing net operating income
by $1,000.
B) Super-variable costing net operating income exceeds absorption costing net operating income
by $77,000.
C) Absorption costing net operating income exceeds super-variable costing net operating income
by $77,000.
D) Absorption costing net operating income exceeds super-variable costing net operating income
by $1,000.