In: Accounting
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 PART 4  | 
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 Process Costing - First-In First-Out  | 
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 General Information  | 
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 The I See The Light Company has a related company that produces the figurines. They use process costing  | 
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 in the molding department. The factory overhead is applied at a rate of 50% of direct labor dollars.  | 
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 The material is added at the beginning of the process. The labor and overhead costs are assumed  | 
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 to be added uniformly throughout.  | 
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 Month of January  | 
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 Selected information for January is presented below. Note that the applied overhead rate was  | 
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 50% of direct labor costs in the molding department.  | 
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 Molding Department  | 
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 Goods in-process as of January 1 were 2,900 figurines at a cost of $49,880.00. Of this amount, $46,400.00 was from  | 
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 raw materials added, $2,320.00 for labor and $1,160.00 for overhead. These 2,900 figurines were assumed to be  | 
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 40.00% complete as to labor and overhead.  | 
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 During January, 21,500 units were started, $348,945.00 of materials and $37,680.00 of labor costs were incurred.  | 
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 The 5,500 figurines that were in-process at the end of January were assumed to be 20.00% complete to  | 
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 labor and overhead.  | 
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 All figurines in January passed inspection.  | 
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