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Eldervale Winery produces premium wine in the Hunter Valley. During the bottling process, small amount of spillage is often unavoidable. How should the costs associated with the spillage be treated?

A) It should be included in the work in progress.
B) It should be expensed in the period the cost is incurred.
C) It should be ignored in the work in progress account and reported only in the internal production reports.
D) It should be expensed immediately under the FIFO method, but included in the work in progress in the weighted average method.

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For a firm, which produces its product through two processes, the costs transferred into Process 2 from Process 1 can be described as

A) prior process costs.
B) transferred in costs.
C) prior period costs.
D) prior process costs AND transferred in costs.

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Conversion costs are generally added at specific points throughout a process.

Standard costs are based on estimates of cost of materials, labour and overheads. Standard costs are also known as

Which of the following statement/s is/are true?

Rex Company Ltd had 4000 units in work in process at 1 April. During April, 11 000 units were completed. At 30 April, 5000 units remained in work in process. How many units were started during April?

Under Australian accounting standards, which methods can be used to prepare the departmental production report?

Healthy Flavour is a food processing company that makes a product called Health Nut soup in two processes-blending and condensing. The output of the blending department is transferred to the condensing department. All materials are added at the beginning of the blending process, and conversion activity occurs uniformly throughout both processes. The following data pertain to the month of April in the blending department. Using the FIFO method of process costing, calculate the cost per equivalent unit of conversion activity for the month of April.

Which of the following statements about operation costing is true? i. Conversion costs are accumulated by department. ii. Direct material costs are accumulated by batch. iii. It is a hybrid product costing system.

The FIFO method is a more accurate method than weighted average because:

In which of the following ways is normal spoilage accounted for?

To calculate equivalent units, multiply the partially completed physical units in the process by the percentage of completion.

Banana Shirts produces t-shirts in large batches. Most of its t-shirts are made of regular cotton, although some are made from ethically produced cotton. The manufacturing process is relatively simple; most t-shirts go through similar processes; the main difference is whether the t-shirt requires embroidery or printing. The most appropriate costing system for Banana Shirts is

At Hilltop Dairy Producers Pty Ltd, an employee ignored the standard sterilising procedures before beginning the new batch of low fat milk causing the batch to curdle. This would be regarded as

Which of the following is not required when calculating the equivalent units for conversion? I Percentage of conversion for ending work in progress Ii Percentage of conversion for physical units that have been completed and transferred out of the department Iii) Cost of direct materials

Wages paid to a supervisor in a factory are a part of:

Softcloth Textile Pty Ltd manufactures a variety of fabrics. The Weaving Department had 1000 units in work in process on April 1, which were 20 per cent complete as to conversion costs. During April, 8000 units were completed and transferred. On April 30, 4000 units remained in work in process 50 per cent complete as to conversion costs. Using the weighted average method process costing, calculate the equivalent units of conversion for the month of April.

A company starts work on 1000 physical units and completes 75 per cent of conversion activity. The costs are $1500 for conversion and $5000 for direct material. What is the cost per equivalent unit for direct material?

Owl's Hours produces herbal tea and prides itself in having one of the largest ranges of herbal teas in Australia. It sells more than 50 varieties of tea leaves with a wide range of prices (depending on where the tea leaves are grown) . The production processes of its products is simple, but vary depending on whether the tea is sold as loose leaves (which requires packing tea leaves in various sized boxes) or tea bags (which requires additional process in packaging tea in specially designed tea bags) . Owl's Hours decides to use an operation costing system. This decision is

Assume material is added at the beginning of a process, and the beginning WIP inventory is 30 per cent complete as to conversion costs. Using the FIFO method of costing, the total equivalent units for material for this process during this period is equal to