Question

In May, one of the processing departments at Messerli Corporation had beginning work in process inventory of $18,000 and ending work in process inventory of $39,000. During the month, $152,000 of costs were added to production and the cost of units transferred out from the department was $131,000. The company uses the FIFO method in its process costing system. In the department’s cost reconciliation report for May, the total cost to be accounted for would be:

Answer 1

$170,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the total cost to be accounted is shown below:

= Beginning work in process units + cost of units transferred out

= $18,000 + $152,000

= $170,000

In order to compute the total cost to be accounted we simply added the beginning work in process units and the cost of units transferred out so that the exact value could come