RSTN Company produces its product in two sequential processing departments. During October, the first process finished and transferred 295,000 units of its product to the second process. Of these units, 34,000 were in process at the beginning of the month and 261,000 were started and completed during the month. At month-end, 27,500 units were in process. Compute the number of equivalent units of production for direct materials for the first process for October under each of the following three separate assumptions using the FIFO method.
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.
The equivalent units are calculated on the basis of the percentage of the work completed during the period. The unit cost is calculated as the total costs divided by the number of the equivalent units.
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