Explain the difference between variable costing and absorption costing income statements. Provide income statements in both variable costing and absorption costing formats for an initial period and its successive period in a case where all manufactured products within the two periods are sold by the end of the second period, but number of units sold in the first period is less than the number of units manufactured in this period. What is the interesting observation in comparing the two types of income statements

Yang corporation starts a foreign subsidiary on january 1 by investing 20,000 rand. yang owns all of the shares of the subsidiary’s common stock. the foreign subsidiary generates 40,000 rand of net income throughout the year and pays no dividends. the rand is the foreign subsidiary’s functional currency. currency exchange rates for 1 rand are as follows: lo 10-3 january $0.25 = 1 rand average for the 0.28 = 1 december 0.31 = 1 in preparing consolidated financial statements, what translation adjustment will yang report at the end of the current year? a. $400 positive (credit). b. $1,000 positive (credit). c. $1,400 positive (credit). d. $2,400 positive (credit). hoyle, joe ben; hoyle, joe ben. advanced accounting (page 513). mcgraw-hill higher education. kindle edition.