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At the beginning of the year, a company predicts total overhead costs of $560,000. The company applies overhead using machine hours and estimates it will use 1,400 machine hours during the year. What amount of overhead should be applied to Job 65A if that job uses 13 machine hours during January?

Short Answer

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Amount of overhead applied to Job 65A:$5,200.

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Definition of Factory Overhead

Factory overhead refers to the costs incurred by the business entity in production other than direct material and labor, including indirect labor and material.

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Calculation of overhead applied

Overheadapplied=EstimatedoverheadEstimatedhours×HoursusedbyJob=$560,0001,400×13=$5,200

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Bergamo Bay’s computer system generated the following trial balance on December 31, 2017. The company’s manager knows something is wrong with the trial balance because it does not show any balance for Work in Process Inventory but does show a balance for the Factory Overhead account. In addition, the accrued factory payroll (Factory Wages Payable) has not been recorded.

Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \(170,000

Accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,000

Raw materials inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,000

Work in process inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Finished goods inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000

Prepaid rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000

Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \)  17,000

Notes payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,000

Common stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000

Retained earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271,000

Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373,000

Cost of goods sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,000

Factory overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,000

Operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,000

Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \(736,000 \)736,000

After examining various files, the manager identifies the following six source documents that need to be processed to bring the accounting records up to date.

Materials requisition 21-3010: \(10,200 direct materials to Job 402

Materials requisition 21-3011: \)18,600 direct materials to Job 404

Materials requisition 21-3012: \(5,600 indirect materials

Labor time ticket 6052: \)36,000 direct labor to Job 402

Labor time ticket 6053: \(23,800 direct labor to Job 404

Labor time ticket 6054: \)8,200 indirect labor

Jobs 402 and 404 are the only units in process at year-end. The predetermined overhead rate is 200% of direct labor cost.

Required

1. Use information on the six source documents to prepare journal entries to assign the following costs.

a. Direct materials costs to Work in Process Inventory.

b. Direct labor costs to Work in Process Inventory.

c. Overhead costs to Work in Process Inventory.

d. Indirect materials costs to the Factory Overhead account.

e. Indirect labor costs to the Factory Overhead account.

2. Determine the revised balance of the Factory Overhead account after making the entries in part 1. Determine whether there is any under- or overapplied overhead for the year. Prepare the adjusting entry to allocate any over- or underapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold, assuming the amount is not material.

3. Prepare a revised trial balance.

4. Prepare an income statement for 2017 and a balance sheet as of December 31, 2017.

Analysis Component

5. Assume that the $5,600 on materials requisition 21-3012 should have been direct materials charged to Job 404. Without providing specific calculations, describe the impact of this error on the income statement for 2017 and the balance sheet at December 31, 2017.

Assume that your company sells portable housing to both general contractors and the government. It sells jobs to contractors on a bid basis. A contractor asks for three bids from different manufacturers. The combination of low bid and high quality wins the job. However, jobs sold to the government are bid on a cost-plus basis. This means the price is determined by adding all costs plus a profit based on cost at a specified percent, such as 10%. You observe that the amount of overhead applied to government jobs is higher than that applied to contract jobs. These allocations concern you.

Required

Write a half-page memo to your company’s chief financial officer outlining your concerns with overhead allocation.

Question: Assume that your company sells portable housing to both general contractors and the government. It sells jobs to contractors on a bid basis. A contractor asks for three bids from different manufacturers. The combination of low bid and high quality wins the job. However, jobs sold to the government are bid on a cost-plus basis. This means price is determined by adding all costs plus a profit based on cost at a specified percent, such as 10%. You observe that the amount of overhead applied to government jobs is higher than that applied to contract jobs. These allocations concern you.

Required

Write a half-page memo to your company’s chief financial officer outlining your concerns with overhead allocation.

Use information in Exercise 15-7 to prepare journal entries for the following events for the month of May.

  1. Direct labor usage.

A recent balance sheet for Porsche AG shows beginning raw materials inventory of €83 million and ending raw materials inventory of €85 million. Assume the company purchased raw materials (on account) for €3,108 million during the year.

(1) Prepare journal entries to record (a) the purchase of raw materials and (b) the use of raw materials in production.

(2) What do you notice about the € amounts in your journal entries?

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