Hirsch Company Has Per-Unit Fixed and Variable Manufacturing Costs of $40

question 15

Essay

Hirsch Company has per-unit fixed and variable manufacturing costs of $40 and $15, respectively. Variable selling and administrative costs are $9 per unit. Consider the two independent cases that follow for the firm.
Case A: Variable-costing income, $110,000; sales, 6,000 units; production, 6,000 units
Case B: Variable-costing income, $178,000; sales, 7,500 units; production, 7,100 units
Required:
A.
A. From a product-costing perspective, what is the basic difference between absorption costing and variable costing?
B.
B. Compute Hirsch's absorption-costing income in Case
C. Compute Hirsch's absorption-costing income in Case

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Definitions:

Conversion Costs

Costs related to transforming raw materials into finished goods, specifically including direct labor and manufacturing overhead expenses.

Equivalent Unit

A measure used in process costing that converts the work done on partial units into a number of fully completed units.

Process Costing

A costing method used in manufacturing where costs are assigned to products based on the average cost of production steps or processes.

Conversion Costs

The aggregate cost of direct labor and the overheads in manufacturing necessary for turning raw materials into final goods.