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Applying Costs to Units—FIFO MethodData concerning a recent period's activity in the M...

Applying Costs to Units—FIFO Method

Data concerning a recent period's activity in the Mixing Department, the first processing department in a company that uses process costing, appear below:

 

Materials

Conversion

Cost of work in process inventory at the beginning of the period

$2,700

$380

Equivalent units of production in the ending work in

 

 

process inventory

800

200

Equivalent units of production required to complete

 

 

the beginning work in process inventory

400

700

Cost per equivalent unit for the period

$4.40

$1.30

A total of 8,000 units were completed and transferred to the next processing department during the period. Beginning work in process inventory consisted of 1,000 units and ending work in process inventory consisted of 2.000 units.

Required:

Using the FIFO method, compute the cost of the units transferred to the next department during the period and the cost of ending work in process inventory.

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