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. TC Corporation is a biotech company based in Milpitas. It makes a cancer-treatment drug in a single processing department. Direct materials are added at

. TC Corporation is a biotech company based in Milpitas. It makes a cancer-treatment drug in a single processing department. Direct materials are added at the start of the process. Conversion costs are added evenly during the process. Bio Doc uses the weightedaverage method of process costing. The following information for July 2011 is available.

Physical Units

Equivalent Units

Work in process, July 1

8500 a

8500

1700

Started during July

35000

Completed and transferred out during July

33000

33000

33000

Work in process, July 31

10500 b

10500

6300

  1. Degree of completion: direct materials, 100%; conversion costs, 20%.
  2. Degree of completion: direct materials, 100%; conversion costs, 60%.

Total cost for July:

Work in process, beginning

Direct materials

63100

Conversion costs

45510

108610

Direct materials added during July

284900

Conversion costs added during July

485040

Total costs to account for

878550

Required: Under FIFO METHOD-

i. Calculate cost per equivalent unit for direct materials and conversion costs.

ii. Summarize total costs to account for, and assign total costs to units completed (and transferred out) and to units in ending work in process.

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