How the company uses the fifo inventory method


Cooley company has the following information:

Variable production costs ----------------- $ 8 per unit

Fixed OH Producation costs ------------ $120,000 per year

Variable selling & admin. ------------------- $4 per unit

Fixed selling & admin. ------------------------ $60,000 per year

Normal production ----------------------------- 20,000 units per year

The company uses the FIFO inventory method. 2011 was the first year of operation year

year Budgeted units to produce Actual units produce Actual units sold
2011 20,000 16,000 14,000
2012 16,000 25,000 22,000
2013 19,000 15,000 19,000

Question1: if income under absorption costing for year 2013 is $50,000, what was the 2013 net income under the variable costing method assuming that overhead was applied to production using a rate based on normal production?

Question 2: if income under variable costing for year 2012 is $40,000, what was the 2012 net income under the absorption costing method assuming that overhead was applied to production using a rate based on budgetedproducation for each year? (note: this neans that each year will have a different budgeted overhead application rate?

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