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

  1. Direct labor usage.

Short Answer

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Work-in-process is debited with$265,000

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01

Meaning of Journal Entry

Accounting journals contain records of financial transactions in an organization's books.The transactions are accompanied by debit and credit columns.

02

Preparing Journal entry

Date

Particulars

Debit ($)

Credit ($)

Work-in-process Inventory

265,000

Factory wages payable

265,000

(To record direct labor used)

03

Calculation of direct labor cost

Factorypayroll=Directlaborcost+Indirectlaborcost$345,000=Directlaborcost+$80,000Directlaborcost=$265,000

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Most popular questions from this chapter

A company’s Factory Overhead account shows total debits of \(624,000 and total credits of \)646,000 at the end of the year. Prepare the journal entry to close the balance in the Factory Overhead account to Cost of Goods Sold.

Question: In a job order costing system, what records serve as a subsidiary ledger for Work in Process Inventory? For Finished Goods Inventory?

Sager Company manufactures variations of its product, a technopress, in response to custom orders from its customers. On May 1, the company had no inventories of work in process or finished goods but held the following raw materials.

Material M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 units @ \(250 = \)50,000

Material R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 units @   180 =  17,100

Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 units @     75 =     4,125

Total cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \(71,225

On May 4, the company began working on two technopresses: Job 102 for Worldwide Company and Job 103 for Reuben Company

Required

Using Exhibit 15.3 as a guide, prepare job cost sheets for Jobs 102 and 103. Using Exhibit 15.5 as a guide, prepare materials ledger cards for Material M, Material R, and paint. Enter the beginning raw materials inventory dollar amounts for each of these materials on their respective ledger cards. Then, follow the instructions in this list of activities.

  1. Purchased raw materials on credit and recorded the following information from receiving reports and invoices.

Receiving Report No. 426, Material M, 250 units at \)250 each.

Receiving Report No. 427, Material R, 90 units at \(180 each.

Instructions: Record these purchases with a single journal entry. Enter the receiving report information on the materials ledger cards.

  1. Requisitioned the following raw materials for production.

Requisition No. 35, for Job 102, 135 units of Material M.

Requisition No. 36, for Job 102, 72 units of Material R.

Requisition No. 37, for Job 103, 70 units of Material M.

Requisition No. 38, for Job 103, 38 units of Material R.

Requisition No. 39, for 15 units of paint.

Instructions: Enter amounts for direct materials requisitions on the materials ledger cards and the job cost sheets. Enter the indirect materials amount on the materials ledger card. Do not record a journal entry at this time.

  1. Received the following employee time tickets for work in May

Time tickets Nos. 1 to 10 for direct labor on Job 102, \)90,000.

Time tickets Nos. 11 to 30 for direct labor on Job 103, \(65,000.

Time tickets Nos. 31 to 36 for equipment repairs, \)19,250.

Instructions: Record direct labor from the time tickets on the job cost sheets. Do not record a journal entry at this time.

  1. Paid cash for the following items during the month: factory payroll, \(174,250, and miscellaneous overhead items, \)102,000. Use the time tickets to record the total direct and indirect labor costs.

Instructions: Record these payments with journal entries.

  1. Finished Job 102 and transferred it to the warehouse. The company assigns overhead to each job with a predetermined overhead rate equal to 80% of direct labor cost.

Instructions: Enter the applied overhead on the cost sheet for Job 102, fill in the cost summary section of the cost sheet, and then mark the cost sheet “Finished.” Prepare a journal entry to record the job’s completion and its transfer to Finished Goods.

  1. Delivered Job 102 and accepted the customer’s promise to pay $400,000 within 30 days.

Instructions: Prepare journal entries to record the sale of Job 102 and the cost of goods sold.

  1. Applied overhead cost to Job 103 based on the job’s direct labor to date.

Instructions: Enter overhead on the job cost sheet but do not make a journal entry at this time.

  1. Recorded the total direct and indirect materials costs as reported on all the requisitions for the month.

Instructions: Prepare a journal entry to record these costs.

  1. Recorded the total overhead costs applied to jobs.

Instructions: Prepare a journal entry to record the allocation of these overhead costs.

j. Compute the balance in the Factory Overhead account as of the end of May.

Moonrise Bakery applies factory overhead based on direct labor costs. The company incurred the following costs during 2017: direct materials costs, \(650,000; direct labor costs, \)3,000,000; and factory overhead costs applied, \(1,800,000.

1. Determine the company’s predetermined overhead rate for 2017.

2. Assuming that the company’s \)71,000 ending Work in Process Inventory account for 2017 had \(20,000 of direct labor costs, determine the inventory’s direct materials costs.

3. Assuming that the company’s \)490,000 ending Finished Goods Inventory account for 2017 had $250,000 of direct materials costs, determine the inventory’s direct labor costs and its overhead costs.

: Using Exhibit 15.15 as a guide, prepare summary journal entries to record the following transactions and events a through g for a company in its first month of operations.

  1. Raw materials purchased on account, \(90,000.
  2. Direct materials used in production, \)36,500. Indirect materials used in production, \(19,200.
  3. Paid cash for factory payroll, \)50,000. Of this total, \(38,000 is for direct labor and \)12,000 is for indirect labor.
  4. Paid cash for other actual overhead costs, \(11,475.
  5. Applied overhead at the rate of 125% of direct labor cost.
  6. Transferred cost of jobs completed to finished goods, \)56,800.
  7. Sold jobs on account for \(82,000. The jobs had a cost of \)56,800.
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