This entry charges the good units’ cost to the next department and the spoiled units cost to overhead. If the spoiled units had any recoverable value, it would be charged to a separate spoiled goods inventory account , and only the remaining, unrecoverable spoilage cost would be charged to overhead.
Once the cost transferred from molding to glazing is known, the cost of production report for the glazing department can be prepared. Of the 15000 units transferred from glazing to finished goods during November, 3000 were from beginning inventory because beginning inventory is complete as to prior department cost and materials but only 70 percent complete as to conversion cost, the units in beginning inventory require the addition of 30 percent of current period conversion cost to complete them .thus the beginning inventory required a total of 3000*30=900 equivalent units of labor and overhead. All other units transferred to finished goods this period contain only current
Period costs; the 15000 total units transferred minus 3000 units from beginning inventory = 12000
Started and completed this period, each of which contains one full equivalent unit of prior department cost, materials, labor, and overhead. Ending inventory is complete as to prior department cost and materials, and so it represents 4000 equivalent units of prior department cost and materials. Ending inventory is only 25 percent complete as to conversion cost, so it represents 4000*25%=1000 equivalent units of labor and overhead. Because spoiled units are detected by inspection at the end of the production process , the spoiled units are complete as to all elements of cost and thus represent 3000 process the spoiled units are complete as to all elements of cost and thus represent 3000 equivalent units of prior department cost, materials, labor, and overhead the equivalent units of current period cost for each of the elements of cost in the glazing department are
Determined as follows
Cost added in the current period:
Equivalent units in beginning
Inventory
Equivalent units started and
Completed during
The current period
Equivalent units in
Ending inventory
Equivalent units of spoilage
Total equivalent units
Cost added during the current
Period
Divided by equivalent units
Cost per equivalent units