Home Products Inc Has Failed to Reach Its Planned Activity

question 36

Multiple Choice

Home Products Inc has failed to reach its planned activity level during its first two years of operation. The following table shows the relationship between units produced, sales, and normal activity for these years and the projected relationship for Year 3. All prices and costs have remained the same for the last two years and are expected to do so in Year 3. Income has been positive in both Year 1 and Year 2. Because Home Products uses a full costing system, one would predict operating income for Year 3 to be:

• A)Greater than operating income under variable costing.
• B)Less than year 2
• C)The same as operating income under variable costing.
• D)Less than the operating income under variable costing.

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Definitions:

Call Increases

Typically refers to an increase in the price of call options, which are contracts that give the holder the right to buy the underlying asset at a specified price.

Wasting Asset

An asset that inexorably declines in value over time due to physical deterioration or the expiration of intangible rights.

Put Option

An option that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell an asset.

Call Option

An option that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy an asset.