Cost Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133428702
ISBN 13: 978-0-13342-870-4

Chapter 17 - Process Costing - Assignment Material - Questions - Page 696: 17-7

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The distinctive characteristic of weighted-average computations is that it calculates the equivalent-unit cost based on all work done to date, irrespective of the accounting period, and assigns this cost to both equivalent units completed and transferred out of the process and to equivalent units in ending work-in-process inventory.

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