Old country links inc, produces sausages in $3$ production departments: mixing, casing and curing $,$ and packaging. In the mixing department, meats are prepared and ground and then mixed with spices. The spiced meat mixture is then transferred to the casting and curing department, where the mixture is force$-$fed into castings and then hung and cured in climate $-$controlled smoking chambers. In the packaging department, the cured sausages are sorted, packed and labelled. The company used the weighted average method in its process costing $.$data for september for the casing and curing department is below:Percentage Completed

UNITS Mixing Materials Conversion

work in process inventory, septemeber $11100\%90\%80\%$

work in process inventory, septemeber $301100\%80\%70\%$

Mixing Materials Conversion

work in process inventory $,$ september $1$ $$1,670$ $$90$ $$605$

cost added during september $$81,460$ $$6,006$ $$42$Mixing represents the costs of the spiced meat mixture transferred in from mixing department. The spiced meat mixture is processed in the casting and curing department in batches; each unit in the above table is a batch, and one batch of spiced meat mixture produces a set amount of sausages that are passed on to the packaging department. During September, $50$ batches were completed and transferred to the packaging department.

Required:

$1.$ Determine the casting and curing department$$s equivalent units of production for mixing, materials, and conversion for the month of September. Do not round off your computations.

$2.$ Compute the casing and curing department$$s cost per equivalent unit for mixing, materials and conversion for the month of September.

$3.$ Compute the casting and curing departments cost of ending work in process inventory for mixing,materials, conversion and in total for september

$4.$ Compute the casting and curing department$$s cost of units units transferred out to packaging department for mixing, materials $,$ conversion and in total for september

$5.$ Prepare a cost reconciliation report for the casting and curing department for september.,$490$stems. Data for September for the casing and curing department is below: