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PROBLEM 6-18 Variable and Absorption Costing Unit Product Costs and Income Statements L06-1, L06-2 Haas Company manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to each of the company's first three years of operations: Variable costs per unit: Manufacturing: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Variable selling and administrative Fixed costs per year: Fixed manufacturing overhead Fixed selling and administrative expenses $20 $12 $4. $2 $960,000 $240,000 During its first year of operations. Haas produced 60.000 units and sold 60.000 units. During its second year of operations, it produced 75,000 units and sold 50,000 units. In its third year. Haas produced 40,000 units and sold 65,000 units. The selling price of the company's product is $58 per unit. Required: 1. Compute the company's break-even point in unit sales. 2. Assume the company uses variable costing: Compute the unit product cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. b. Prepare an income statement for Year 1 Year 2, and Year 3. 3. Assume the company uses absorption costing: a. Compute the unit product cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. b. Prepare an income statement for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. 4. Compare the net operating incomes that you computed in requirements 2 and 3 to the break- even point in unit sales that you computed in requirement 1. Which net operating income figures (variable costing or absorption costing) seem counterintuitive? Why?