Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 27E
Equivalent Units and Cost of Production
By mistake, the production supervisor transposed the digits on the production report and reported a higher percentage of completion for each inventory component. Assume that there was no beginning inventory.
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What is the effect of this error on the following?
- a. The computation of total equivalent units.
- b. The computation of costs per equivalent unit.
- c. Costs assigned to cost of goods transferred out for the period.
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The FIFO method provides a major advantage over the weighted-average method in that:
a. the calculation of equivalent units is less complex under the FIFO method.
b. the FIFO method treats units in the beginning inventory as if they were started and completed during the current period.
c. the FIFO method provides measurements of work done during the current period.
d. the weighted-average method ignores units in the beginning and ending work in process inventories.
What effect would an underestimated degree of completion of ending inventory have on a.) production cost per unit, b.) equivalent units, and c.) costs transferred out
I.-When assigning costs to partially completed units in the ending work in process inventory, it is not necessary to consider the percentage completion of the units under the weighted-average method.
II.-The cost per equivalent unit for conversion costs will always be the same under both the FIFO and the weighted-average methods if there is no ending work in process inventory
A. Only statement I is true
B. Both statements are false
C. Both statements are true
D. Only statement II is true
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