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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 |