Question

1. Sanchez Corporation uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. The Fitting Department is the second department in its production process. The data below summarize the department's operations in March.

	Units	Percent Complete with respect to conversion
Beginning Work In Process Inventory	7,000	60%
Transferred in from prior department in March	52,000
Ending Work in Process Inventory	3,500	80%

The Fitting Department's cost per equivalent unit for conversion cost for March was $8.66.
How much conversion cost was assigned to the units transferred out of the Fitting Department during March?

2. In February, one of the processing departments at Carpentier Corporation had beginning work in process inventory of $14,000 and ending work in process inventory of $29,000. During the month, $148,000 of costs were added to production and the cost of units transferred out from the department was $133,000. In the department's cost reconciliation report for February, the total cost to be accounted for would be:

Answer 1

1)	Beginning wip		7,000	completed & transferred out			55,500
	units transferred in		52,000	Ending WIP			3,500
	units to be accounted		59,000	units accounted for			59,000
	thus conversion cost Assigned to units transferred out is
	55,500 units *8.66
	480630	answer
2)	total cost to be accounted for
	Beginning work in process				14,000
	Cost added during the year				148,000
	total cost to be accounted for				162,000