Question - The Cruise Salad Company began March with zero cases of its Thousand Island dressing in work-in-process inventory. During March, Cruise started 125,000 cases into production. On March 31, Cruise had 25,000 cases still in process, which production personnel estimated to be 30% complete. Cruise accumulates all of its manufacturing costs in a single pool. During March, Cruise spent a total of $3,225,000 on manufacturing costs for its Thousand Island dressing.
a. Compute the number of cases finished in March.
b. Compute the number of equivalent units for cases finished during March and for cases still in process at the end of March.
c. Compute the total costs to account.
d. Determine the cost per equivalent case.
e. Determine the cost of cases finished during March and the cost of the cases still in process at the end of March. (The total of these two amounts should equal your answer for part (c) above).