It Is Reasonable to Use Average or Expected Capacity Instead

question 75

True/False

It is reasonable to use average or expected capacity instead of practical capacity to calculate fixed overhead rates.

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Definitions:

Work in Process Inventory

Items that are partway through their manufacturing process but have not yet reached their final form.

Equivalent Units

A concept in cost accounting used to allocate costs to partially completed goods, measured in terms of the amount of finished goods those partial items represent.

Weighted Average Method

A cost accounting method that calculates the cost per unit of inventory by considering the weight of each period’s inventory cost.

Weighted Average Method

An inventory costing method that assigns an average cost to each unit in inventory, calculated by dividing the total cost of goods available by the total units available.