Prepare journal entries to record the transactions listed


Problem - Cedar Hills Company produces reproductions of antique furniture at a plant located in rural North Dakota. Because there are hundreds of potential products, some of which are made only to order, the company uses a job-order costing system. On January 1, the start of the company's fiscal year, inventory account balances were as follows:

Raw Materials

31,800

Work in Process

29,000

Finished Goods

18,600

The company applies overhead costs to jobs on the basis of machine-hours.

  • estimated total machine-hours of plant operation this year - 38,500 hours
  • estimated total manufacturing overhead costs to be incurred this year - 196,350

Transactions occurring during the year:

AMOUNT

a. Raw materials purchased on account

156,800

b. Raw materials requisitioned for use in production 

169,400

portion of total chargeable directly to jobs

106,800

c. Costs for employee services were incurred as follows:


 Direct 

128,900

 Indirect 

49,000

 Sales Commissions 

76,750

 Administrative Salaries 

49,240

d. Prepaid insurance expired during the year

17,420

portion related to factory operations (remainder was related to selling & administrative activities)

10,670

e. Utility costs incurred in the factory, all paid in cash.

26,500

f. Advertising costs incurred on account

19,500

g. Depreciation recorded on equipment

48,800

portion for equipment used in the factory (remaining amount was for equipment used in selling & administrative activities)

43,600

h. Manufacturing overhead was applied to production.


Machine hours of operating time during the year 39,600 hours


i. Manufactured goods were transferred into the finished goods warehouse.


Costs for transferred goods according to job cost sheets

442,660

j. Sales (all on account) to customers during the year

695,000

Cost of Goods Sold

433,260

REQUIRED:

A. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions listed above.

B. Use the supplied T-Accounts for the inventories, Manufacturing Overhead, and Cost of Goods Sold to post the relevant data from your journal entries to the T-Accounts. (Don't forget to enter the beginning balances in your inventory accounts.) Compute an ending balance in each account.

C. Is Manufacturing Overhead underapplied or overapplied for the year? Explain.

D. Prepare a journal entry to cost any balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account to Cost of Goods Sold.

E. Prepare an income statement for the year. It is not necessary to prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured. All information for the income statement is available in the journal entries and T-Accounts.

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