
Concept explainers
Introduction:
Process costing systems is a system to assign the costs where the production goes through different processes. A product may take several processes to complete and when these processes are separable, the process costing system is applied to ascertain the cost of each process.
Equivalent units:
Equivalent unit is the product unit that is physically not completed but it is measured as equivalent to completed unit.
FIFO method:
FIFO is one of the methods of process costing, under this method the cost and units of beginning work in process inventory are accounted separately.
Requirement-1:
To Calculate:
The equivalent units for production using the FIFO method

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