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Sanjog and Rajiv Gupta have started a business that manufactures and sells thermal mugs....

Sanjog and Rajiv Gupta have started a business that manufactures and sells thermal mugs. Users personalize the mugs by plugging them into a laptop and downloading their favorite images from a digital camera. The company makes two mug sizes: 16 and 24 ounce mugs. This is its first year of business. The following data summarize operations for the first year.

16 oz. mug

24 oz. mug

Total

Selling price

$9.75

$11.20

Direct materials/unit

$1.10

$1.45

Direct labor/unit

$0.60

$0.80

Variable overhead/unit

$0.30

$0.40

Variable selling and distribution/unit

$1.65

$1.75

Units sold

22,500

16,400

Units produced

24,000

16,400

Fixed manufacturing overhead

$85,000

Fixed selling and distribution

$148,000

There were no beginning inventories. Overhead is assigned to products using direct labor dollars.

Required:

a. Calculate Mystic Mugs’s net income before taxes using absorption costing.

b. Calculate Mystic Mugs’s net income before taxes using variable costing.

c. Prepare a table that reconciles any difference between the two net income figures calculated in parts (a) and (b).

d. Write a short memo explaining in lay terms any difference between the two net income figures calculated in parts (a) and (b).

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