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Accounting for Small Manufacturers

Tami Tyler started a small manufacturing company called Tami's Creations. The company's first quarter income statement prepared by a friend showed a loss. Tami wanted to use the statement to get a bank loan but was discouraged by the loss. A CPA friend told Tami that using absorption costing instead of variable costing may have shown a profit. Absorption costing allocates fixed production costs to each unit while variable costing treats them as period costs.

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Accounting for Small Manufacturers

Tami Tyler started a small manufacturing company called Tami's Creations. The company's first quarter income statement prepared by a friend showed a loss. Tami wanted to use the statement to get a bank loan but was discouraged by the loss. A CPA friend told Tami that using absorption costing instead of variable costing may have shown a profit. Absorption costing allocates fixed production costs to each unit while variable costing treats them as period costs.

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Topic 7

Problem 1

Tami Tyler opened Tami’s Creations, Inc., a small manufacturing company, at the beginning of the
year. Getting the company through its first quarter of operations placed a considerable strain on
Ms. Tyler’s personal finances. The following income statement for the first quarter was prepared by
a friend who has just completed a course in managerial accounting at State University.

Ms. Tyler is discouraged over the loss shown for the quarter, particularly because she had planned
to use the statement as support for a bank loan. Another friend, a CPA, insists that the company should
be using absorption costing rather than variable costing and argues that if absorption costing had been
used the company would probably have reported at least some profit for the quarter.
At this point, Ms. Tyler is manufacturing only one product, a swimsuit. Production and cost
data relating to the swimsuit for the first quarter follow:

Required:
1. Complete the following:
a. Compute the unit product cost under absorption costing.
b. Redo the company’s income statement for the quarter using absorption costing.
c. Reconcile the variable and absorption costing net operating income (loss) figures.
2. Was the CPA correct in suggesting that the company really earned a “profit” for the quarter?
Explain.
3. During the second quarter of operations, the company again produced 30,000 units but sold
32,000 units. (Assume no change in total fixed costs.)
a. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the quarter using variable costing.
b. Prepare an income statement for the quarter using absorption costing.
c. Reconcile the variable costing and absorption costing net operating incomes.

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