Question

Tamar Co. manufactures a single product in two departments. All direct materials are added at the beginning of the Forming process. Conversion costs are added evenly throughout the process. During May, the Forming department started 30,150 units, and transferred 31,700 units of product to the Assembly department. Its 4,900 units of beginning work in process consisted of $146,355 of direct materials and $990,512 of conversion costs. It has 3,350 units (100% complete with respect to direct materials and 80% complete with respect to conversion) in process at month-end. During the month, $663,300 of direct materials costs and $2,963,188 of conversion costs were charged to the Forming department. The following additional information is available for the Forming department.

• Beginning work in process consisted of 4,900 units that were 100% complete with respect to direct materials and 40% complete with respect to conversion.
• Of the 31,700 units transferred out, 4,900 were from beginning work in process. The remaining 26,800 were units started and completed during May.

Assume that Tamar uses the FIFO method to account for its process costing system.

Answer 1