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Direct labor $ 952,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 2,550,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 992,000
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 34,000 units
and sold 31,000 units. The company’s only product is sold for $254 per unit.
The company is considering using either super-variable costing or an absorption costing
system that assigns $28 of direct labor cost and $75 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) Absorption costing net operating income exceeds super-variable costing net
operating income by $309,000.
B) Absorption costing net operating income exceeds super-variable costing net
operating income by $225,000.
C) Super-variable costing net operating income exceeds absorption costing net operating
income by $309,000.
D) Super-variable costing net operating income exceeds absorption costing net
operating income by $225,000.
20) Buckbee Corporation manufactures and sells one product. The following information
pertains to the company’s first year of operations:
Variable costs per unit:
Direct materials $ 97
Fixed costs per year:
Direct labor $ 629,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 2,849,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 1,056,000
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 37,000 units
and sold 32,000 units. The company’s only product is sold for $261 per unit.
The unit product cost under super-variable costing is: