Problem

The Pennsylvania Furniture Company produces dining tables in a? three-stage process:? Sawing, Assembly, and Staining. Costs incurred in the Sawing Department during September are summarized as? follows:

Work in Process Inventory - Sawing
September 1 balance - 0
Direct Materials - 1,824,000
Direct Labor - 139,100
Manufacturing Overhead - 165,100

Direct materials? (lumber) are added at the beginning of the sawing? process, while conversion costs are incurred evenly throughout the process. September activity in the Sawing Department included sawing of 11,000 meters of? lumber, which were transferred to the Assembly Department.? Also, work began on 1,000 meters of? lumber, which on September 30 were 70?% of the way through the sawing process.

1. Fill in the time line for the Sawing Department.

2. Use the time line to help you compute the number of equivalent units and the cost per equivalent unit in the Sawing Department for September.

3. Show that the sum of (a) cost of goods transferred out of the Sawing Department and (b) ending "Work in Process Inventorylong dash-?Sawing" equals the total cost accumulated in the department during September.

4. Journalize all transactions affecting the company's sawing process during September?, including those already posted.