Amajor objective of macrs is to: a. ensure that the amount of cost recovery for tax purposes will be the same as book depreciation. b. require companies to use the actual economic lives of assets in calculating cost recovery for tax purposes. c. companies achieve a faster write-off of their capital assets. d. reduce the amount of the cost recovery deduction on businesses tax returns. e. all of these choices are major objectives.

Lynch company manufactures and sells a single product. the following costs were incurred during the company’s first year of operations: variable costs per unit: manufacturing: direct materials $ 12 direct labor $ 6 variable manufacturing overhead $ 1 variable selling and administrative $ 1 fixed costs per year: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 308,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 218,000 during the year, the company produced 28,000 units and sold 15,000 units. the selling price of the company’s product is $56 per unit. required: 1. assume that the company uses absorption costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year. 2. assume that the company uses variable costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year.