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Crunch Ltd manufacture potato chips and the business applies a weighted average process costing system. All direct materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are incurred evenly throughout production. The information for June's activities is given below:

Work in process 1 June - 20,000 units
Direct material (100% complete)	$44,000
Conversion cost (20% complete)	$9,000
Balance of work in process, 1 June	$53,000
Units started during June	200,000 units
Units completed during June and transferred out to finished goods inventory	160,000 units
Work in process , 30 June:
Direct materials (100% complete)
Conversion (33 % complete)
Costs incurred during June:
Direct material	$396,000
Conversion costs:	$316,800
Direct labour $105,600
Manufacturing overhead $211,200
Total production costs incurred during June	$712,800

Required: (where necessary round off all figures to two decimal places)

Answer the following question using the weighted average method (WACM). Show all workings. Please use as much of the table below as you need, you can also delete or add rows and columns as needed. (Click the cursor inside a cell to see the table row and column options appear).

a. Calculate the equivalent units for the company and then calculate the unit cost of the product

b. Crunch Ltd is looking at improving its strategic performance and is keen on introducing some non-financial performance measures to its operations. Can you advise the accountant of THREE appropriate non-financial indicators and explain to the accountant how these indicators would be used to measure performance.

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