Dance Creations manufactures authentic Hawaiian hula skirts that are purchased for traditional Hawaiian celebrations, costume parties, and other functions. During its first year of business, the company incurred the following costs:
Variable Cost per Hula Skirt
Direct materials $
Direct labor
Variable manufacturing overhead
Variable selling and administrative expenses
Fixed Costs per Month
Fixed manufacturing overhead $
Fixed selling and administrative expenses
Dance Creations charges $ for each skirt that it sells. During the first month of operation, it made skirts and sold
Required:
Assuming Dance Creations uses variable costing, calculate the variable manufacturing cost per unit for last month.
Complete a contribution margin income statement for the last month.
Assuming Dance Creations uses full absorption costing, calculate the full manufacturing cost per unit for the last month.
Complete a full absorption costing income statement.
Suppose next month Dance Creations expects to produce hula skirts and sell Without recreating the new income statements, calculate the difference in profit between variable costing and full absorption costing. Which would be higher?