Reference no: EM13974181

The Good Buy Company produces a single product. The cost characteristics of the product and of the manufacturing plant are given below:

Number of units produced each year......$6,000
Variable costs per unit:
Direct materials ...............$2
Direct labor ...............$4
Variable manufacturing overhead ........$1
Variable selling & administrative expense ....$3
Fixed costs per unit:
Manufacturing overhead.........$30,000
Selling & administrative expense..........$10,000

Under the variable costing method:

(1) Compute the cost of a unit of product 
(2) Prepare a variable costing income statement if 5,000 units are sold at a price of $20. 
Assume beginning inventory is equal to zero (0).