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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3rd Edition by William N. Lanen, Shannon W. Anderson, Michael Maher

Edition 3ISBN: 0073527114
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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3rd Edition by William N. Lanen, Shannon W. Anderson, Michael Maher

Edition 3ISBN: 0073527114
Exercise 30

Assign Costs to Goods Transferred Out and Ending Inventory: Weighted-Average Method

Refer to the data in Exercise 8-29. Compute the costs of goods transferred out and the ending inventory using the weighted-average method.

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Weighted-average method:

It is one of the methods of calculating the cost per equivalent unit with respect to direct materials and conversion costs. It considers the cost of work-in-process inventory and current period costs to calculate cost per equivalent unit.

Cost per equivalent unit under weighted-average method is calculated using the following formula:

    <div class=answer> <u> Weighted-average method: </u> It is one of the methods of calculating the cost per equivalent unit with respect to direct materials and conversion costs. It considers the cost of work-in-process inventory and current period costs to calculate cost per equivalent unit. Cost per equivalent unit under weighted-average method is calculated using the following formula:


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