Determining Unit Costs Using the Cost of Finished Goods Manufactured
The accounting records of the Cedar Company include the following information relating to the current year:
| Dec. 31 | Jan. 1 |
Materials inventory | $ 22,000 | $ 40,000 |
Work in process inventory | 49,000 | 49,000 |
Finished goods inventory, Jan. 1 (8,000 units @ $21.50 per unit) | ? | 172,000 |
Purchases of direct materials during year | 310,000 |
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Direct labor costs assigned to production | 410,000 |
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Manufacturing overhead assigned to production | 582,000 |
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The company manufactures a single product; during the current year, 60,000 units were manufactured and 50,000 units were sold.
Instructions
a. Prepare a schedule of the cost of finished goods manufactured for the current year. (Show a supporting computation of the cost of direct materials used during the year.)
b. Compute the average per-unit cost of production during the current year. Is the cost higher or lower than last year?
c. Compute the cost of goods sold during the year, assuming that the FIFO (first-in, first-out) method of inventory costing is used.
d. Compute the cost of the inventory of finished goods at December 31 of the current year, assuming that the FIFO (first-in, first-out) method of inventory costing is used.
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