Compute the cost of work in process inventory lost in fire


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Q: Fenwick Corporation's manufacturing and finished goods warehouse facilities burned to the ground on January 31. The loss was fully covered by insurance. The insurance company wanted to know the cost of the inventories destroyed in the fire. The company's accountants gathered the following information:

Assume that actual manufacturing overhead was exactly equal to the amount applied to production at the time of the fire.

Direct materials purchased in January $ 160,000
Work in Process Inventory, January 1
34,000
Materials Inventory, January 1
16,000
Finished Goods Inventory, January 1
30,000
Direct labor costs incurred in January
190,000
Prime costs charged to jobs in January
294,000
Cost of finished goods available for sale in January
450,000
Sales revenue earned in January
500,000
Gross profit as a percentage of January sales
25 %
Manufacturing overhead applied to jobs in January as a percentage of total conversion costs
60 %

a. Compute the cost of materials inventory (assume materials inventory is comprised entirely of direct materials) lost in the fire

 

b. Compute the cost of work in process inventory lost in the fire.

c. Compute the cost of finished goods inventory lost in the fire.

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