Calculate the fixed costs to the two products, Cost Accounting

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Herrestad Company does produce and sell two products and the details below will be used to prepare a segmented income statement (showing the income for each product and the total) for the company. Use ABC to allocate all fixed costs to the two products.

Background information
	Total	Prod A	Prod B
Beginning inventory	0
Units produced	10,000	2,500	7,500
Units sold	8,000	2,000	6,000

Selling price per unit	$300	540	220
Variable costs per unit
Direct material	120	270	70
Direct labor	90	60	60
Variable overhead	40	85	25
Variable selling and admin. exp.	10	13	9

Fixed costs
Fixed manufacturing overhead	250,000
Fixed selling and administrative	100,000


Production runs (not $)	100	75	25
Number of sales reps (not $)	30	20	10

Here are the first few lines of the segmented income statement to help you get started. Complete the statement in good format and make sure you allocate the fixed costs to the two products. When done, comment on the information and the relative profitability of the two products.

Herrestad Company
Segmented Income Statement
For the period ending Dec. 31, 2011
	A	B	Total
Sales	$1,080,000	$1,320,000	$2,400,000
Variable costs:
Direct material	540,000	420,000	960,000

The submission should be 2 to 4 pages and need to include answers to all the questions listed above. Show computations, discuss the results and include references in APA format.

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