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Equivalent units are a measure used in process costing to express partially completed units in terms of fully completed units. It combines work in process inventory with completed units to give a more accurate picture of production status.

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Definition and Explanation of Equivalent Units of Production:After materials, labor and overhead costs have been accumulated in a department, the department's output must be determined so that unit cost can be computed. A department usually has some partially completed units in its ending inventory. It does not seem reasonable to count these partially completed units as equivalent to fully completed units when counting the department's out put. These partially converted units are mathematically converted into an equivalent number of fully completed units. 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In a weighted average method the equivalent units of production for a department are the number of units transferred to the next department of finished goods plus the equivalent units in the department's ending work in process inventory.Example:Following is the data from Shaping and Milling department, one of the departments at Five Star CompanyShaping and Milling DepartmentPercent CompleteUnitsMaterialsConversionWork in process, May 1Units started in production during MayUnits completed in May and transferred to the next departmentWork in Process, May31 2005,0004,80040055%100%*40%30%100%*25%*It is always assumed that units transferred out of a department are 100% complete with respect to the processing done in that department.Note that the May1 beginning Work in Process is 55% complete with respect to materials costs, and 30% complete with respect to conversion costs. This means that 55% of the materials costs required to complete the units in the department has already been incurred. Likewise, 30% of the conversion cost required to complete the units has already been incurred.Since Five Star's work in process inventories are at different stages of completion in terms of amounts of materials cost and conversion cost that have been added in the department, two equivalent unit figure must be completed. The equivalent units computations are shown below.Shaping and Milling DepartmentMaterialsConversionUnits transferred to the next departmentWork in Process, May 31400 units × 40%400 units × 25% Equivalent units of production4,800160--------4,960=====4,800100--------4,900=====Note from above computations that units in the beginning work in process inventory are ignored. The weighted average method is concerned only with the fact that there are 4,900 equivalent units for conversion cost in ending inventories and in units transferred to the next department―the method is not concerned with the additional fact that some of this work was accomplished in the prior periods. This is a key point in the weighted average method that is easy to overlookgoogle_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); Equivalent Units―First-in-First-Out (FIFO) Method:The computation of equivalent units under FIFO method differs from weighted average method in two ways. First the units transferred out figure is divided into two parts. One part consists of the units from beginning inventory that were completed and transferred out, and the other part consists of the units that were both started and completed during the current period. 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The FIFO method assumes that the units in the beginning inventory are finished first.


What is meant by the term equivalent units of production when the weighted-average method is used?

Is the number of units transferred to the next department added to the equivalent units (product of number of partially completed units and % completed of thoses units with respect to the processing in the department) in the departments ending work in process inventory.


What is equivalent units of production?

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