Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 2nd Edition by William Lanen, Carolyn Wells, Michael Maher

Exercise 16

Compute Equivalent Units
Select the best answer for each of the following independent multiple-choice questions.
a. Adams Company's production cycle starts in Department A. The following information is available for July:

Materials are added at the beginning of the process in Department A. Using the weightedaverage method, what are the equivalent units of production for the month of July

b. Department B is the second stage of Boswell Corporation's production cycle. On November 1, beginning work in process contained 100,000 units, which were 30 percent complete as to conversion costs. During November, 640,000 units were transferred in from the first stage of the production cycle. On November 30, ending work in process contained 80,000 units, which were 65 percent complete as to conversion costs. Materials are added at the end of the process. Using the weighted-average method, the equivalent units produced during November were as follows:

c. Department C is the first stage of Cohen Corporation's production cycle. The following equivalent unit information is available for conversion costs for the month of September:

Using the FIFO method, the equivalent units for the conversion cost calculation are:

d. Draper Corporation computed the physical flow of units for Department D for the month of December as follows:

Materials are added at the beginning of the process. Units of WIP at December 31 were 16,000. As to conversion costs, WIP at December 1 was 70 percent complete and WIP at December 31 was 50 percent complete. What are the equivalent units produced for the month of December using the FIFO method

( CPA adapted )