Pantanal, Inc., manufactures car seats in a local factory. For costing purposes, it uses a first-in, first-out

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Pantanal, Inc., manufactures car seats in a local factory. For costing purposes, it uses a first-in, first-out (FIFO) process costing system. The factory has three departments: Molding, Assembling, and Finishing. Following is information on the beginning work-in-process inventory in the Assembling Department on August 1:


Pantanal, Inc., manufactures car seats in a local factory. For


During August, 102,000 units were transferred in from the Molding Department at a cost of $2,142,000 and started in Assembling. The Assembling Department incurred other costs of $1,164,600 in August as follows:
August Costs
Direct materials costs . . . . . . . . . . $ 939,600
Conversion costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225,000
Total August costs . . . . . . . . . . . $1,164,600
At the end of August, 16,000 units remained in inventory that were 90 percent complete with respect to direct materials and 50 percent complete with respect to conversion.

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Compute the cost of goods transferred out in August and the cost of work-in-process endinginventory.

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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

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Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher

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