Scrapping the Bottom, Inc. is a manufacturer of peanut butter. The jars of peanut butter pass through two sequential production departments before landing in finished goods inventory. The company's first processing department, machining, reported the following information for its most recent month of operations:

	direct materials	direct labor	allocated MOH
costs in beginning work in process	$4,320	$1,040	$1,790
costs added during the month	$52,800	$21,500	$32,250

The machining department's beginning inventory consisted of 5,000 physical units that were 80% complete with respect to direct material and 60% complete with respect to conversion. During the month, 45,000 physical units were started in the department. At month end, 8,000 physical units were in the department's ending inventory. The units in ending inventory were 75% complete with respect to direct material and 50% complete with respect to conversion.

You asked one of the staff members on your team to calculate the cost to machine a unit for the most recent month of operations. The staff member emailed you the following calculations:

	DM	C
total costs to account for	$57,120	$56,580
divided by units	48,400	46,800
cost per unit	$1.18	$1.21	$2.39

Where did they go wrong?

A.

They divided the total costs to account for by total physical units instead of total equivalent units.

B.

They forgot to include allocated manufacturing overhead in the conversion costs.

C.

They failed to account for units in ending inventory.

D.

They used the percentage of completion for units in beginning inventory instead of the percentage of completion for units in ending inventory.

E.

They did not include the beginning inventory costs on the total costs to account for line.