Vassa chemicals has a mixing Department and a Refining Department. Its process-costing system in the Mixing Department

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Vassa chemicals has a mixing Department and a Refining Department. Its process-costing system in the Mixing Department has two direct materials cost categories (Chemical P and Chemical Q) and one conversion costs pool. The following data pertain to the Mixing Department for July 2007:
Units 
Work in process, july 1 
0 
Units started 
50,000 
Completed and transferred to Refining Department 
35,000 
Costs 
Chemical P 
$250,000 
Chemical Q 
70,000 
Conversion costs 
135,000 
Chemical P is introduced at the start of operations in the Mixing Department, and chemical Q is added when the product is three-forths completed in the Mixing Department. Conversion costs are added evenly during the process. The ending Work in process in the Mixing Department is two - thirds complete.
1. Compute the equivalent units in the Mixing Department for July 2007 for each cost category.
2. Compute (a) the cost of goods completed and transferred to the Refining Department during July and (b) the cost of work in process as of July 31, 2007.

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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis

ISBN: 978-0131495388

12th edition

Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, George Foster

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