Jimmy Jones operates Jimmy's Cricket Farm in Eatonton, Georgia. Jimmy's raises about 18 million crickets a month. Most are sold to pet stores at $12.60 for a box of 1,000 crickets. Pet stores sell the crickets for $0.05 to $0.10 each as live feed for reptiles.
Raising crickets requires a two-step process: incubation and brooding. In the first process, incubation, employees place cricket eggs on mounds of peat moss to hatch. In the second process, employees move the newly hatched crickets into large boxes filled with cardboard dividers. Depending on the desired size, the crickets spend approximately two weeks in brooding before being shipped to pet stores. In the brooding process, Jimmy's crickets consume about 16 tons of food and produce 12 tons of manure.
Jones has invested $400,000 in the cricket farm, and he had hoped to earn a 24% annual rate of return, which works out to a 2% monthly return on his investment. After looking at the farm's bank balance, Jones fears he is not achieving this return. To get more accurate information on the farm's performance, Jones bought new accounting software that provides weighted-average process cost information. After Jones input the data, the software provided the following reports. However, Jones needs help interpreting these reports.
Jones does know that a unit of production is a box of 1,000 crickets. For example, in June's report, the 7,000 physical units of beginning work in process inventory are 7,000 boxes (each one of the 7,000 boxes contains 1,000 immature crickets). The finished goods inventory is zero because the crickets ship out as soon as they reach the required size. Monthly operating expenses total $2,000 (in addition to the costs that follow).

Requirements
Jimmy Jones has the following questions about the farm's performance during June:
1. What is the cost per box of crickets sold?
2. What is the gross profit per box?
3. How much operating income did Jimmy's Cricket Farm make in June?
4. What is the return on Jones's investment of $400,000 for the month of June? (Compute this as June's operating income divided by Jones's $400,000 investment, expressed as a percentage.)
5. What monthly operating income would provide a 2% monthly rate of return? What price per box would Jimmy's Cricket Farm have had to charge in June to achieve a 2% monthly rate of return?

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JIMMY'S CRICKET FARM Brooding Department Production Cost Report (part 1 of 2) Month Ended June 30 uivalent Units Flow of Transferred-Direct Conversion Physical Units MaterialsCosts Flow of Production Units to account for: in Beginning work in process inventory, June 1 Transferred in during June Total units to account for 7,000 21,000 28,000 Units accounted for: Completed and shipped out during June Ending work in process, June 30 Total physical units accounted for 19,000 9,000 28,000 19,000 9,000 19,000 7,200 19,000 3,600 Total equivalent units 28,000 26,200 22,600 JIMMY'S CRICKET FARM Brooding Department Production Cost Report (part 2 of 2) Month Ended June 30 Transferred- in Direct Materials Conversion Costs Total Unit costs: Beginning work in process, June 1 Costs added during June Total costs to account for Divide by total equivalent units Cost per equivalent unit Assignment of total cost: Units completed and shipped out during June [19,000 x ($2.40$7.50 +$2.50)] Ending work in process, June 30: $21,000 46,200 567,200 28,000 S 2.40 $39,940 156,560 $196,500 ÷ 26,200 7.50 S 5,02065,960 51,480 254,240 S56,500$320,200 22,600 S 2.50 $235 19,000 x $2.401 Transferred-in costs Direct materials Conversion costs Total ending work in process, June 30 21,600 54,000 9,000 84,600 $320,200 [7,200 x $7.50] 13,600 x $2.50] Total cost accounted for