Weighted Average method in its process costing system. The following Mavis Inc. uses the data concern the operations of the company's first processing department for a recent month: Work in process, beginning: Units in process Stage of completion with respect to materials Stage of completion with respect to conversion Costs in the beginning inventory: Materials cost Conversion cost Units started into production during the month Units completed and transferred out Costs added to production during the month: Materials cost Conversion cost Work in process, ending: Units in process Stage of completion with respect to materials Stage of completion with respect to conversion 100 80% 60% $376 $2,376 26,000 25,700 $98,645 $831,531 ??? 70% 50%
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.
a. Prepare a production report for the department using the Weighted Average method
and write the resulting
inventory to the next department.
b. If the company had used the FIFO method, what would the cost per unit have been for
Materials and for Conversion?
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