1. A company that uses a job order cost accounting system incurred $10,000 of factory payroll during May. Prepare the May 31 entry assuming $8,000 is direct labor and $2,000 is indirect labor.
2. Plumley Ad Agency contracted with a company to prepare an ad campaign. Plumley uses a job order costing system. Plumley estimates that the job will take 145 designer hours at $90 per hour and 85 staff hours at $45 per hour. Plumley uses two overhead rates in applying overhead to jobs: Designer-related at $100 per designer hour and staff-related at $50 per staff hour. Determine the total estimated cost for this job.
3. BC Company uses a job order cost accounting system. During the month of April, the following events occurred:
(a) Purchased raw materials on credit, $32,000.
(b) Raw materials requisitioned: $25,800 as direct materials and $10,500 indirect materials.
(c) Paid factory payroll for the month totaling $37,700 which includes $8,200 indirect labor.
(d) Assigned the factory payroll to jobs and overhead.
Make the necessary journal entries to record the above transactions and events.
4. Key Manufacturing Co. applies factory overhead to production on the basis of direct labor costs. Assume that at the beginning of the current year the company estimated that direct material costs would be $178,800, direct labor costs would be $154,000, and factory overhead costs would be $231,000.
(1) If the $28,000 cost of Key's goods in process inventory included $5,200 of direct labor cost, what amount of direct materials cost was included?
(2) If $8,100 of the company's $34,300 finished goods inventory was direct materials cost, determine the direct labor cost and factory overhead cost of the finished goods inventory.