Pinellas Pillow Company?s planned predication for the year just ended was 10,000 units. This production level was
Question:
Pinellas Pillow Company?s planned predication for the year just ended was 10,000 units. This production level was achieved, but only 9,000 units were sold. Other data follows:
There were no work-in-process inventories at the beginning or end of the year.
Required:
1. What would be Pinellas Pillow Company's finished-goods inventory cost on December 31 under the variable-costing method?
2. Which costing method, absorption or variable costing, would show a higher operating income for the year? By what amount?
3. Suppose Pinellas Pillow Company uses throughput costing, and direct material is its only unit-level cost. What would be Pinellas' finished-goods inventory on December 31?
Managerial Accounting Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Authors: Ronald Hilton, David Platt