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Process Costing

November 20, 2010

Process Costing

November 20, 2010

Process Cost Flows

One Production Department

Work in Process

Direct materials Direct labor Applied manufacturing f t i overhead Cost of goods completed and transferred to finished fi i h d goods d

Finished Goods

Cost of Goods Sold

Cost of goods sold during current period

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Process Cost Flows

Two Sequential Production Departments

Work in Process – Dept. A

Direct materials Direct labor Applied manufacturing f t i overhead Cost of goods completed in Dept. A and transferred to Dept. B Direct materials Direct labor Applied manufacturing overhead

Work in Process – Dept. B

Cost of goods completed and transferred to finished fi i h d goods d

Finished Goods

Cost of goods completed and transferred to finished goods Cost of goods sold during current period

Cost of Goods Sold

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FEU - Makati

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Process Costing

November 20, 2010

Key Concept:  Equivalent Units

 Expresses partially completed products as a  smaller number of fully completed products

o Costs are accumulated for a period of time for  products in work in process inventory products in work‐in‐process inventory o Products in work‐in‐process inventory at the  beginning and end of the period are only partially  complete 

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Illustration of Equivalent Units

Two one-half completed products are equivalent to one completed product.

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Ten thousand units 70 percent complete are equivalent to 7,000 complete units.

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Equivalent Units

 For the current period, Jones started 15,000 units and  completed 10,000 units, leaving 5,000 units in process 30  percent complete.  How many equivalent units of production  did Jones have for the period? A. 10,000 A 10 000 B. 11,500 10,000 units + (5,000 units x 30%) = 11,500 equivalent units C. 13,500 D. 15,000

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Process Costing

November 20, 2010

Calculating and Using the Equivalent Units of  Production...