Contribution and Absorption Income Statements The following information is taken from the records of the Zealand...

  

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Contribution and Absorption Income Statements The following information is taken from the records of the Zealand Manufacturing Company for the year ending December 31, 2012. There was no beginning or ending inventories. Sales Sales commissions Advertising Shipping expenses Administrative executive salaries Administrative clerical salaries (variable) Fire insurance on factory equipment Property taxes on factory equipment $15,000,000 Long-term rent, factory 500,000 450,000 360,000 Factory superintendent's salary Factory supervisors' salaries Direct materials used Direct labor Cutting bits used 375,000 Factory methods research Abrasives for machining Indirect labor Depreciation on factory equipment 110,000 6,000 28,000 $ 90,000 32,500 110,000 3,800,000 1,650,000 52,000 42,500 99,800 955,000 440,000 1. Prepare a contribution income statement and an absorption income statement. If you are in doubt about any cost behavior pattern, decide on the basis of whether the total cost in question will fluctuate substantially over a wide range of volume. Prepare a separate supporting schedule of indirect manufacturing costs subdivided between variable and fixed costs. 2. Suppose that all variable costs fluctuate directly in proportion to sales, and that fixed costs are unaffected over a wide range of sales. What would operating income have been if sales had been $12.5 million instead of $15 million? Which income statement did you use to help get your answer? Why? Contribution and Absorption Income Statements The following information is taken from the records of the Zealand Manufacturing Company for the year ending December 31, 2012. There was no beginning or ending inventories. Sales Sales commissions Advertising Shipping expenses Administrative executive salaries Administrative clerical salaries (variable) Fire insurance on factory equipment Property taxes on factory equipment $15,000,000 Long-term rent, factory 500,000 450,000 360,000 Factory superintendent's salary Factory supervisors' salaries Direct materials used Direct labor Cutting bits used 375,000 Factory methods research Abrasives for machining Indirect labor Depreciation on factory equipment 110,000 6,000 28,000 $ 90,000 32,500 110,000 3,800,000 1,650,000 52,000 42,500 99,800 955,000 440,000 1. Prepare a contribution income statement and an absorption income statement. If you are in doubt about any cost behavior pattern, decide on the basis of whether the total cost in question will fluctuate substantially over a wide range of volume. Prepare a separate supporting schedule of indirect manufacturing costs subdivided between variable and fixed costs. 2. Suppose that all variable costs fluctuate directly in proportion to sales, and that fixed costs are unaffected over a wide range of sales. What would operating income have been if sales had been $12.5 million instead of $15 million? Which income statement did you use to help get your answer? Why?

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Answer 1 ZEALAND MANUFACTURING Contribution income statement For the year ended December 312012 Sale... View the full answer