Determine the company inventory balances


Alam Company is a manufacturing firm that uses job-order costing. At the beginning of the year, the company's inventory balances were as follows:

  

  Raw materials $ 25,400  
  Work in process $ 74,400  
  Finished goods $ 28,400  


The company applies overhead to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company estimated that it would work 46,400 machine-hours and incur $185,600 in manufacturing overhead cost. The following transactions were recorded for the year:


a. Raw materials were purchased, $417,400.
b. Raw materials were requisitioned for use in production, $434,000 ($381,400 direct and $52,600 indirect).
c. The following employee costs were incurred: direct labor, $415,400; indirect labor, $61,400; and administrative salaries, $213,400.
d. Selling costs, $142,400.
e. Factory utility costs, $21,400.
f. Depreciation for the year was $83,800 of which $74,400 is related to factory operations and $9,400 is related to selling, general, and administrative activities.
g. Manufacturing overhead was applied to jobs. The actual level of activity for the year was 49,400 machine-hours.
h. The cost of goods manufactured for the year was $1,005,400.
i. Sales for the year totaled $1,417,400 and the costs on the job cost sheets of the goods that were sold totaled $990,400.
j. The balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account was closed out to Cost of Goods Sold.

Required:

Prepare the appropriate journal entry for each of the items above. You can assume that all transactions with employees, customers, and suppliers were conducted in cash.

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