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Exercise 8-30 Segmented Income Statements, Inventory Valuation For the coming ye

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Exercise 8-30 Segmented Income Statements, Inventory Valuation

For the coming year, Paulson Computers Inc. expects to produce 144,000 computers. Of these, 64,000 will be consumer (personal) computers and 80,000 will be small business computers. Common fixed overhead is $1,700,000. Additional information for the coming year is as follows:

Consumer Computers

Small Business Computers

Price

$   640

$ 1,675

Unit direct materials

    490

  1,180

Unit direct labor

     90

    310

Unit variable overhead

     23

     50

Unit variable selling expense

     35

     65

Total direct fixed overhead

120,000

350,000

Fixed selling and administrative expense for Paulson Computers is $2,960,000 per year.

Required:

1.CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Calculate the unit variable cost under variable costing. Is this cost the same as unit variable product cost? Why or why not?

2.Prepare a segmented variable-costing income statement for next year. The segments correspond to product lines: consumer computers and small business computers.

Use the following information for Exercises 8-31 and 8-32:

Ranger Company purchases 17,280 units of Product Beta each year in lots of 864 units per order. The cost of placing one order is $10, and the cost of carrying one unit of product in inventory for a year is $6.

Consumer Computers

Small Business Computers

Price

$   640

$ 1,675

Unit direct materials

    490

  1,180

Unit direct labor

     90

    310

Unit variable overhead

     23

     50

Unit variable selling expense

     35

     65

Total direct fixed overhead

120,000

350,000

Explanation / Answer

1)

Unit variable product costs are different from the unit variable cost of the computers. The reason is unit variable product cost is the unit variable production cost of the computers, whereas unit variable cost of the computers are the unit variable cost of the computers sold that is including the variable operating expenses like selling expenses.

2)

Consumer computer ($) small business computer($) Unit direct materials 490 1180 Unit direct labour 90 310 unit variable overhead 23 50 Unit Product cost 603 1540 Unit variable selling expense 35 65 Unit variable cost 638 1605
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