In Wildhorse Company, materials are entered at the beginning of each process, and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. Work in process inventories, with the percentage of work done on conversion costs, and production dat for its Sterilizing Department in selected months during 2022 are as follows. Beginning Ending Work in Process Work in Process Conversion Units Completed and Conversion Month Units Cost% Transferred Out Units Cost% January 14,300 2,600 60 March 15,600 3,900 30 May 18,200 9,100 80 July 13,000 1,700 40
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
![In Wildhorse Company, materials are entered at the beginning of each process, and conversion costs are incurred uniformly
throughout the process. Work in process inventories, with the percentage of work done on conversion costs, and production data
for its Sterilizing Department in selected months during 2022 are as follows.
Beginning
Ending
Work in Process
Work in Process
Conversion
Units Completed and
Conversion
Month
Units
Cost%
Transferred Out
Units
Cost%
January
14.300
2,600
60
March
15,600
3,900
30
May
18.200
9,100
80
July
13,000
1,700
40
(a)
Your answer is correct.
For January and May, compute the physical units to be accounted for and the physical units accounted for.
January
May
Units to be accounted for
Beginning work in process
i
i
Started into production
16900
27300
Total units
16900
27300
Units accounted for
Transferred out
14300
18200
Ending work in process
2600
9100
Total units
16900
27300
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Materials
Conversion Costs
January
March
May
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