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Managerial Accounting + Connect Access Card
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ISBN: 9781260581263
Author: John Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
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Chapter 6, Problem 2PSB
To determine

Income Statement:

It is also known as profit and loss statement. It refers to that financial statement that is made to show the net income or loss that a company or a business has made by the end of a particular period.

Variable Costing:

It refers to the method of product costing in which the price of the product is calculated considering only the variable or direct costs or the cost that happened to occurred due to the product only. It is also called as marginal costing as it takes marginal costs while calculating the product cost.

Absorption Costing:

It refers to the method of product costing in which the price of the product is calculated considering all the fixed as well as the variable or direct costs. The valuation of closing inventory in this method is consists of both fixed and variable costs.

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To prepare: Income statement of the company for the year using variable costing

2.

To determine

To explain: The difference in income between the variable costing and absorption costing income statement.

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