Cost Accounting (15th Edition)
Cost Accounting (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780133428704
Author: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.35P

1.

To determine

Job order costing:

Job order costing is one of the methods of costing to find out the cost of an individual job or the cost of batches of jobs in the manufacturing firm where different products or unique products are manufactured simultaneously. It is also known as job costing. Here the word job refers to a single or several units of different product or service.

Activity Based Costing:

Activity based costing is one of the methods of costing to identify the activities performed to manufacture a product and to allocate the overhead cost of resources or indirect cost to the related products.

Simple Costing System:

Simple costing system is one of method of costing to estimate the amount of allocating the overhead cost of resources to the associated product based on the total units manufacture of that product, machine and labor hour consumed to manufacture that product.

To calculate: The budgeted cost per service for X-rays, Ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRI using direct technician labor cost as the allocation base.

2.

To determine

To calculate: The budgeted cost per service of X-rays, Ultrasounds, CT-Scan and MRI if RRC allocated overhead cost using activity-based costing.

3.

To determine

To explain: The manner in which disaggregation of information is helpful to RRC’s intention to continuously improve its services.

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Granada Company uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. The first processing department, the Mixing Department, started the month with 20,000 units in its beginning work in process inventory that were 40% complete with respect to conversion costs. The conversion cost in this beginning work-in-process inventory was $32,000. An additional 100,000 units were started into production during the month and 95,000 units were completed in the Mixing Department and transferred to the next processing department. There were 25,000 units in the ending work-in-process inventory of the Mixing Department that were 30% complete with respect to conversion costs. A total of $518,000 in conversion costs were incurred in the department during the month. What would be the cost per equivalent unit for conversion costs for the month? A. $4.89 B. $5.37 C. $4.75 D. $6.21
Please provide the correct answer to this general accounting problem using valid calculations.
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