KANSAS SUPPLIES Assembling Department Production Cost Report-FIFO Prior Department Costs Manufacturing Overhead Physical Units Total Costs Materials Labor Flow of Production Units Units to be accounted for: Beginning WIP inventory Units started this period Total units to be accounted for Units accounted for: Units completed and transferred out: From beginning inventory Started and completed currently Units in ending WIP inventory Total units accounted for Costs to be accounted for: Costs in beginning WIP inventory Current period costs Total costs to be accounted for $ 0 $ 0 $ $ 0 $ Cost per equivalent unit: Prior department costs Materials Labor Manufacturing overhead
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.
Kansas Supplies is a manufacturer of plastic parts that uses the weighted-average
Work in process on April 1 had 120,000 units made up of the following.
| Amount | Degree of Completion | |||||
| Prior department costs transferred in from the Molding Department | $ | 178,800 | 100 | % | ||
| Costs added by the Assembling Department | ||||||
| Direct materials | $ | 100,800 | 100 | % | ||
| Direct labor | 53,920 | 70 | % | |||
| Manufacturing |
32,520 | 50 | % | |||
| $ | 187,240 | |||||
| Work in process, April 1 | $ | 366,040 | ||||
During April, 520,000 units were transferred in from the Molding Department at a cost of $774,800. The Assembling Department added the following costs.
| Direct materials | $ | 418,320 | |
| Direct labor | 256,000 | ||
| Manufacturing overhead | 161,880 | ||
| Total costs added | $ | 836,200 | |
Assembling finished 420,000 units and transferred them to the Packaging Department.
At April 30, 220,000 units were still in work-in-process inventory. The degree of completion of work-in-process inventory at April 30 was as follows.
| Direct materials | 90 | % |
| Direct labor | 80 | |
| Manufacturing overhead | 30 | |
Required:
a. Prepare a production cost report using FIFO. (Round "Cost per equivalent unit" to 2 decimal places.)
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