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Mario's Foods produces frozen meals, which it sells for $10 each. The company uses the FIFO inventory costing method, and it computes a new monthly fixed manufacturing overhead rate based on the actual number of meals produced that month. All costs and production levels are exactly as planned. The following data are from the company's first two months in business: 1 (Click the icon to view the data) Read the requirements 2. Requirement 1. Compute the product cost per meal produced under absorption costing and under variable costing Do this first for January and then for February. Requirement 2a. Prepare separate monthly income statements for January and for February, using absorption costing. Mario's Foods Income Statement (Absorption Costing) Requirement 2b. Prepare Mario's Foods' January and February income statements using variable costing Mario's Foods Contribution Margin Income Statement (Variable Costing) Requirement 3. Is operating income higher under absorption costing or variable costing in January? In February? Explain the pattern of differences in operating income based on absorption costing versus variable costing In January, absorption costing operating income (15) variable costing income. This is because units produced were (16) units sold. Absorption costing defers some of (17) (18) costs in the units of ending inventory. These costs will not be (19) until those units are sold. Deferring these (20) costs to the future (21) January's absorption costing income In February, absorption costing operating income (22) variable costing operating income. This is because units produced were (23) units sold for the month. As inventory (24) as was the case in this February, January's (25) costs that absorption costing assigned to that inventory are expensed in (26) This (27) February's absorption costing income 1: Data Table (1)