Exercise Inventory Costing
Exercise Inventory Costing
Exercise Inventory Costing
The company
has not had any sales to date. Queen has incurred the following costs associated with
its production as of December 31, Year 1:
Under absorption costing, what is the inventory amount shown on the balance sheet at
December 31, Year 1?
a. $155,600
b. $115,600
c. $98,500
d. $80,000
Year 3 period costs for Drexler, under both the absorption and variable cost methods,
will be
Required:
1. Osawa’s 2014 operating income using absorption costing is (a) $440,000, (b)
$200,000, (c) $600,000, (d) $840,000, or (e) none of these. Show supporting
calculations.
2. Osawa’s 2014 operating income using variable costing is (a) $800,000, (b)
$440,000, (c) $200,000, (d) $600,000, or (e) none of these. Show supporting
calculations.
9-25 Variable versus absorption costing. The Zeta Company manufactures trendy,
good-looking, moderately priced umbrellas. As Zeta’s senior financial analyst, you
are asked to recommend a method of inventory costing. The CFO will use your
recommendation to prepare Zeta’s 2017 income statement. The following data are for
the year ended December 31, 2017:
Required:
Assume standard costs per unit are the same for units in beginning inventory and units
produced during the year. Also, assume no price, spending, or efficiency variances.
Any production-volume variance is written off to cost of goods sold in the month in
which it occurs.
1. Prepare income statements under variable and absorption costing for the year
ended December 31, 2017.
2. What is Zeta’s operating income as percentage of revenues under each costing
method?
3. Explain the difference in operating income between the two methods.
4. Which costing method would you recommend to the CFO? Why?