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Atlantic City Taffy Company produces various kinds of candy, but salt-water taffy is by far its most important product. The company accumulates costs for its product using process costing. Direct material is added at the beginning of the production process, and conversion activity occurs uniformly throughout the process.

Production Report For August 20x1
Percentage of Completion with Respect to Conversion Equivalent Units
Physical Units Direct Material Conversion
Work in process, August 1 40,000 80%
Units started during August

80,000

Total units to account for 120,000

Units completed and transferred out during August

100,000 100,000 100,000
Work in process, August 31 20,000 30% 20,000 6,000
Total units accounted for 120,000

Direct Material Conversion Total
Work in process, August 1 $ 42,000 $ 305,280 $ 347,280
Costs incurred during August 96,000 784,400 880,400
Total costs to account for $ 138,000 $ 1,089,680 $ 1,227,680
1. Use weighted-average process costing to prepare a schedule of equivalent units.
Equivalent Units
Physical Units Direct Material Conversion
Units completed and transferred out during August
Work in process, August 31
Total units accounted for 0
Total equivalent units 0 0

2.Use weighted-average process costing to compute the costs per equivalent unit.

Direct Material Conversion Total
Total costs to account for $0
Equivalent units
Costs per equivalent unit $0.00

3. Use weighted-average process costing to compute the cost of goods completed and transferred out during August.

4. Use weighted-average process costing to compute the cost remaining in the work-in-process inventory on August 31.

Cost
Direct material
Conversion
Total cost of August 31 work in process $0

5. Prepare a journal entry to record the transfer of the cost of goods completed and transferred out during August. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)

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