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Old Country Links, Incorporated, produces sausages in three production departments-Mixing. Casing and Cuning, and Packaging. In the Mixing Department, meats are prepared and ground and then mixed with spices. The spiced meat mixture is then transferred to the Casing and Curng Department, where the mixture is force-fed into casings and then hung and cured in ciimate-controlled smoking chambers In the Packaging Department, the cured sausages are sorted, packed, and labeled. The company uses the weightedaverage method in its process costing system. Data for September for the Casing and Curing Department follow. Mixing cost represents the costs of the spiced meat mixture transferred in from the Mixing Department. The spiced meat mixture is processed in the Casing and Curng Department in batches; each unit in the above table is a batch and one batch of spiced meat moxture produces a set amount of sausages that are passed on to the Packaging Department. During September, 140 batches fl.e. units) were completed and transferred to the Packaging Department. Required: 1. Determine the Casing and Curing Department's equivalent units of production for mixing, materials, and conversion for the month of September. 2. Compute the Casing and Cunng Department's cost per equivalent unit for mixing. matenals, and conversion for the month of September 3. Compute the Casing and Curing Department's cost or ending work in process inventory for mbing, materials, conversion, and in total for September. 4. Compute the Casing and Curing Department's cost of units transferred out to the Packaging Department for mixing, materials, conversion, and in total for September 5. Prepare a cost reconcliation report for the Casing and Cunng Department for September Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Determine the Casing and Curing Department's equivalent units of production for mixing, materials, and conversion for the month of September. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 1 decirmal place.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the Casing and Cuning Department's cost per cqulvalent unit for mbing, materiats, and coctvertion for the month of amount. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the Casing and Curing Department's cost of ending work in process inventory for mixing, materials, conversion, and in total for September. (Round your intermediate calculations to 1 decimal place and your final answers to the nearest whole dollar ampunt.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the Casing and Curing Department's cost of units transferred out to the Packaging Department for mixing. materlals, conversion, and in total for Septernber: (Found your intermediate calcufations to i decimal place and your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amouat.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Prepare a cost reconciliation report for the Casing and Curing Department for September. (Round your intermediate calculations to 1 decimal place and your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

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