Kalox, Inc., manufactures an antacid product that passes through two departments. Data for May for the first department follow:

Gallons Materials Labor Overhead
Work in process, May 1 77,000 $ 68,900 $ 31,500 $ 43,500
Gallons started in process 729,000
Gallons transferred out 750,000
Work in process, May 31 56,000
Cost added during May $ 911,380 $ 388,700 $ 537,140

The beginning work in process inventory was 70% complete with respect to materials and 55% complete with respect to labor and overhead. The ending work in process inventory was 50% complete with respect to materials and 25% complete with respect to labor and overhead.

Required:

Assume that the company uses the weighted-average method of accounting for units and costs.

1.Compute the equivalent units for May’s activity for the first department.

2. Determine the costs per equivalent unit for May. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Connors academy reported inventory in the 2017 year-end balance sheet, using the fifo method, as $154,000. in 2018, the company decided to change its inventory method to lifo. if the company had used the lifo method in 2017, the company estimates that ending inventory would have been in the range $130,000-$135,000. what adjustment would connors make for this change in inventory method?

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