EXERCISE 2-13 (15 MINUTES)

3. Before an income statement can be prepared, the cost of the 8,000 bat-

teries in the ending finished goods inventory must be determined. Alto-

gether, the company produced 40,000 batteries during the quarter;

thus, the production cost per battery would be:

Cost of goods manufactured = $780,000 =$19.50 per unit

Batteries produced during the quarter 40,000 units

Since 8,000 batteries (40,000 – 32,000 = 8,000) were in the finished

goods inventory at the end of the quarter, the total cost of this inven-

tory would be: