Manta Ray Company manufactures diving masks with a variable cost of $26. The masks sell for $35. Budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead for the most recent year was $892,400. Actual production was equal to planned production.

Required:

State whether operating income is higher under variable or absorption costing and the amount of the difference in reported operating income under the two methods. Treat each condition as an independent case. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

1. Production 111,550 units
Sales 108,850 units
2. Production 97,000 units
Sales 102,700 units
3. Production 80,200 units
Sales 80,200 units

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business. identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats. implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the