Yarmouth Company produces a liquid solvent in two departments: Mixing and Finishing. Accounting records at Yarmouth show the following information for Finishing operations for February (no new material is added in the Finishing Department). WIP inventory—Finishing Beginning inventory (11,900 units, 20% complete with respect to Finishing costs) Transferred-in costs (from Mixing) $ 150,070 Finishing conversion costs 8,675 Current work (101,800 units started) Mixing costs 1,089,260 Finishing costs 619,264 The ending inventory has 15,900 units, which are 60 percent complete with respect to Finishing Department costs and 100 percent complete for Mixing Department costs. Required: Complete the production cost report using the weighted-average 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
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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.
Yarmouth Company produces a liquid solvent in two departments: Mixing and Finishing. Accounting records at Yarmouth show the following information for Finishing operations for February (no new material is added in the Finishing Department).
| WIP inventory—Finishing | ||
| Beginning inventory (11,900 units, 20% complete with respect to Finishing costs) | ||
| Transferred-in costs (from Mixing) | $ | 150,070 |
| Finishing conversion costs | 8,675 | |
| Current work (101,800 units started) | ||
| Mixing costs | 1,089,260 | |
| Finishing costs | 619,264 | |
The ending inventory has 15,900 units, which are 60 percent complete with respect to Finishing Department costs and 100 percent complete for Mixing Department costs.
Required:
Complete the production cost report using the weighted-average method.
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