The Assembly Department started the month with 24,500 units in its beginning work in process inventory. An additional 309,500 units were transferred in from the prior department during the month to begin processing in the Assembly Department. There were 29,500 units in the ending work in process inventory of the Assembly Department. How many units were transferred to the next processing department during the month?

Sunset foods relies on a highly centralized functional structure to ensure consistency in the quality and taste of its products and to drive down costs via process innovations. however, as a consequence of its highly compartmentalized structure, the firm has found it difficult to transfer information and ideas from one department to the next. with the launch of its new line of breakfast foods coming up, how can sunset improve its ability to collaborate without sacrificing the benefits of its current structure