Find the cost per equivalent unit of the transferred units


Question-

Badgersize Company has the following information for its Forming Department for the month of August:

Work in Process Inventory, August 1: 20,000 units             

Direct materials: 100% complete        $                      80,000

Conversion: 20% complete                                        24,000

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Balance in work in process, August 1 $                      104,000

Units started during August                                       50,000

Units completed and transferred in August               59,000

Work in process (70% complete), August 31                        ?

Costs charged to Work in Process in August           

Direct materials           $                                              132,000

Conversion costs:                  

Direct labor                 $                                              114,000

Overhead applied                                                       144,000

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Total conversion          $                                              258,000

Assume materials are added at the start of processing.

a. Calculate the equivalent units for the Forming Department for the month of August.

 

Direct materials

Conversion

  Equivalent units

 

 

b. Find the cost per equivalent unit of the transferred units.

 

Direct materials

Conversion

 Cost per equivalent unit

$  

$  

Additional information-

This question related to Basic Accounts and it discuss about calculating equivalent units for direct materials and conversion and cost per equivalent unit in terms of direct material and conversion.

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