In: Accounting
Frank Health Juices manufacture one of its products through three separate stages. Details of production for the month ending 31st March were as follows:
Process
Fermenting Distilling Bottling
Input material: 65,000 kg $780,000 - -
Material added - $49,000 -
Direct Labour cost $114,600 $144,000 $225,600
Manufacturing Overhead $122,000 $126,000 $193,100
Normal losses 8% 5% 5%
Output 55,000 kg 53,000 kg 48,000 kg
Scrap value of losses - - $30.00/kg
The nature of the process requires equipment to be cleaned at the end of each month; hence there is no opening or closing stock of product in process.
Required:
i) The process account for each process: and
ii) The abnormal loss/gain account(s) showing the Frank Health Juices true loss/gain.