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Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk, Inc., a manufacturer of mops, uses the weighted average method in its processing costing system. Don’t Cry uses a traditional costing system in the allocation of its manufacturing overhead (MOH) to production; MOH costs are allocated to production on the basis of machine hours logged during the period. Total estimated MOH for the period was $300,000 and total estimated machine hours were 100,000. The following data concern the operations of the company’s first processing department, Assembly, for June 2012.
| Beginning Work in Process | 800 mops, ?60% complete with respect to direct? materials, 10% complete with respect to conversion | 
| Costs in Beginning Work in Process | $3,712 (of this amount, $1,296 is for direct ?materials) | 
| Units Started in June | 16,000 mops | 
| Direct Product Costs Added During June | direct materials $47,076; direct labor ?$216,213 | 
| Ending Work in Process | 300 mops, 60% completed with respect to direct materials, 70% complete with respect to conversion | 
During? June, 79,325 actual machine hours were logged during production.
| Weighted average cost | |||
| Beggining units | 800 | Transferred out | 16,500 | 
| Started intro production | 16000 | Ending units | 300 | 
| Units accounted for | 16800 | 16800 | |
| Equivalent units | Material | Conversion cost | |
| Units transferred A | 16500 | 16500 | |
| Ending Units | 300 | 300 | |
| Completion | 60% | 70% | |
| B | 180 | 210 | |
| Total units | 16680 | 16710 | |
| Cost per equivalent units | |||
| Particulars | Material | Conversion cost | total | 
| As at beginning | 1296 | 2416 | 3712 | 
| Added during the month | 47076 | 454188 | 501264 | 
| Cost to be accounted for | 48372 | 456604 | 504976 | 
| Total eqivalent units | 16680 | 16710 | |
| Cost per equivalent unit | 2.90 | 27.33 | 30.23 | 
| Cost per equivalent unit = Cost to be accounted for / Total equivalent units | |||
| Cost of ending work in progress | ||||
| Conversion cost | ||||
| Particulars | Material | Total | ||
| Ending units | 300 | 300 | ||
| Cost per equivalent units | 2.90 | 27.33 | ||
| Completion | 60% | 70% | ||
| Total cost | 522 | 5738 | 6260 | |
| Cost of goods transferred | Conversion cost | |||
| Particulars | Material | Total | ||
| Number of units | 16500 | 16500 | ||
| Cost per equivalent units | 2.90 | 27.33 | 30.23 | |
| Total amount | 47850 | 450866 | 498716 | |
| Reconciliation report | ||||
| Cost of goods transferred | 498716 | |||
| Add | Work in proress ending | |||
| Material | 522 | |||
| Conversion cost | 5738 | 6260 | ||
| Total cost accounted for | 504976 |