Publish Inc. has two departments: printing and binding. Each department has one direct cost category (direct materials)

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Publish Inc. has two departments: printing and binding. Each department has one direct cost category (direct materials) and one indirect cost category (conversion costs). This problem focuses on the binding department. Books that have undergone the printing process are immediately transferred to the binding department. Direct materials are added when the binding process is 80% complete. Conversion costs are added evenly during binding operations. When those operations are done, the books are immediately transferred to finished goods. Publish Inc. uses the weighted-average method of process costing. The following is a summary of the April 2015 operations of the binding department.
Publish Inc. has two departments: printing and binding. Each department

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1. Summarize the total binding department costs for April 2015, and assign these costs to units completed (and transferred out) and to units in ending work in process.
2. Prepare journal entries for April transfers from the printing department to the binding department and from the binding department to finished goods.

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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis

ISBN: 978-0133138443

7th Canadian Edition

Authors: Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan, Charles T. Horngren, Louis Beaubien, Chris Graham

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