PART 2   (Sub - Part)       1 & 2 already answered                                   Fen Furnishings produces brass handles for the furniture industry in a four-stage process –Mixing, Moulding, Polishing and Packaging. Costs incurred in the Polishing Department during January are summarized as follows: WIP - Polishing Process A/C January 1 Bal.                                                                          $   0 Transfer from moulding                             $20,000            1,310,000 Direct Materials Added                                                           391,600 Direct Labour                                                                           638,000 Manufacturing Overhead                                                         307,400 Normal losses are estimated to be 2½% of input during the period. Inspection takes place during the processing operation, at which point damaged handles are separated from good handles and sold as scrap to local furniture manufacturers at $85 each.  At inspection, 2,000 handles were rejected as scrap. These units had reached the following degree of completion: Transfer from Moulding  100%                                              Direct material added       40%                                              Conversion costs                20%   Work-in-progress at the end of January was 4,000 handles and had reached the following degree of completion:                                              Transfer from Moulding  100%                                              Direct material added       80%                                              Conversion costs                50%   Direct materials added and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. Required: Compute the equivalent units and cost per equivalent units for direct materials (From Moulding &                        Direct materials added) and conversion costs.                                                  Compute the: cost of the unexpected losses total cost of the handles completed and transferred out of the Packaging Department cost of ending work in process inventory in the Polishing Department Complete the Work in Process Inventory – Polishing Process T-account, clearly showing the ending balance. Prepare the journal entries for the: assignment of direct materials, direct labour incurred and the manufacturing overhead applied to the Polishing Process cost of the units completed and transferred out to the Packaging Process Given that 30% of the unexpected losses were as a result of pilferage, calculate Fen Furnishings true loss associated with the Polishing Process

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Fen Furnishings produces brass handles for the furniture industry in a four-stage process –Mixing, Moulding, Polishing and Packaging. Costs incurred in the Polishing Department during January are summarized as follows:

WIP - Polishing Process A/C

January 1 Bal.                                                                          $   0

Transfer from moulding                             $20,000            1,310,000

Direct Materials Added                                                           391,600

Direct Labour                                                                           638,000

Manufacturing Overhead                                                         307,400

Normal losses are estimated to be 2½% of input during the period. Inspection takes place during the processing operation, at which point damaged handles are separated from good handles and sold as scrap to local furniture manufacturers at $85 each. 

At inspection, 2,000 handles were rejected as scrap. These units had reached the following degree of completion:

Transfer from Moulding 

100%

                                             Direct material added     

 40%

                                             Conversion costs              

 20%

 

Work-in-progress at the end of January was 4,000 handles and had reached the following degree of completion:

                                             Transfer from Moulding 

100%

                                             Direct material added     

 80%

                                             Conversion costs              

 50%

 

Direct materials added and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process.

Required:

  • Compute the equivalent units and cost per equivalent units for direct materials (From Moulding &

                       Direct materials added) and conversion costs.                                                 

  • Compute the:
    • cost of the unexpected losses
    • total cost of the handles completed and transferred out of the Packaging Department
    • cost of ending work in process inventory in the Polishing Department
  • Complete the Work in Process Inventory – Polishing Process T-account, clearly showing the ending balance.
  • Prepare the journal entries for the:
    • assignment of direct materials, direct labour incurred and the manufacturing overhead applied to the Polishing Process
    • cost of the units completed and transferred out to the Packaging Process
  • Given that 30% of the unexpected losses were as a result of pilferage, calculate Fen Furnishings true

loss associated with the Polishing Process

 

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