?"I think we goofed by hiring the new assistant controller," said Ruth Scarpino, president of Provost Industries. "Just look at this report Required:

$1-$a$.$ ?Calculate the equivalent units of production.

$1-$b$.$ ?Calculate the cost per equivalent unit.

Note: Round your answers to $2$ ?decimal places.

$1-$c$.$ ?How much cost should have been assigned to the ending work in process inventory?

Note: Round your intermediate calculations to $2$ ?decimal places.

$1-$d$.$ ?How much cost should have been assigned to the units completed and transferred to finished goods?

Note: Round your intermediate calculations to $2$ ?decimal places.

he prepared for last month for the Finishing Department. I can't understand it$."$

Finishing Department costs:

Work in process inventory, April $1,1,200$ ?units; materials

$100\%$ ?complete; conversion $88\%$ ?complete

costs transferred in during the month from the preceding

department, $2,700$ ?units

Materials cost added during the month

Conversion costs incurred during the month

Total departmental costs

Finishing Department costs assigned to:

Units completed and transferred to finished goods, $3,300$

units at $$23\mathrm{.}61$ ?per unit

"He's struggling to learn our system," replied Frank Harrop, the operations manager. "The problem is he's been away from process

costing for a long time, and it's coming back slowly."

"It's not just the format of his report I$\text{'}$m concerned about. Look at that $$23\mathrm{.}610$ ?unit cost he's come up with for April. Doesn't that seem

high to you?" said Ms$.$ ?Scarpino.

"Yes, it does seem high; but on the other hand, I know we had an increase in materials prices during April, and that may be the

explanation," replied Mr$.$ ?Harrop. "I'll get someone else to redo this report and then we can see what's going on$."$

Provost Industries manufactures a ceramic product that goes through two processing departments$-$Molding and Finishing. The

company uses the weighted$-$average method of process costing.

Required:

$1-$a$.$ ?Calculate the equivalent units of production.

$1-$b$.$ ?Calculate the cost per equivalent unit.

Note: Round your answers to $2$ ?decimal places.