Is/are changes in products, services, or processes that radically change an industry's rules of the game.

The fields company has two manufacturing departments, forming and painting. the company uses the weighted-average method of process costing. at the beginning of the month, the forming department has 25,000 units in inventory, 60% complete as to materials and 40% complete as to conversion costs. the beginning inventory cost of $60,100 consisted of $44,800 of direct materials costs and $15,300 of conversion costs. during the month, the forming department started 300,000 units. at the end of the month, the forming department had 30,000 units in ending inventory, 80% complete as to materials and 30% complete as to conversion. units completed in the forming department are transferred to the painting department. cost information for the forming department is as follows: