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During December, the production department of a process operations system completed and transferred to finished goods a total of 58,000 units of product. At the end of March, 15,000 additional units were in process in the production department and were 60% complete with respect to materials. The beginning inventory included materials cost of $60,400 and the production department incurred direct materials cost of $191,700 during December. Compute the direct materials cost per equivalent unit for the department using the weighted average method.

Answer 1

solution 58000 9000 Completed and trangered (58000 X 100] Ending work in process Direct Material [15000 60%] Equivalent unita Cost of beginning Inventory costs In curred this perrod Total coste 67000 60400 191700 252100 cost per equivalent unit = 252100/67000 = 3.76