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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