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6.What entry is made when labor charges are incurred in the factory for direct l

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Question

6.What entry is made when labor charges are incurred in the factory for direct labor?

7.What entry is made when factory overhead costs are incurred, such as indirect materials, indirect labor, factory power costs, and factory depreciation?

8.Note that the actual factory overhead costs (described in question 8) are not charged directly to jobs. Instead, individual jobs are charged overhead based on the Predetermined Overhead Rate (abbreviated POR). How is the POR calculated?

9.There are several possibilities for the Estimated Activity Base used as the denominator of the POR. Suppose that Johnson Manufacturing estimates its Factory Overhead for 2013 to be $100,000 and estimated direct labor hours for 2013 are 20,000 direct labor hours. Calculate the Predetermined Overhead Rate per direct labor hour.

10.Suppose that Johnson Manufacturing uses 500 direct labor hours in manufacturing Job 295. What entry would be made to apply the factory overhead?

11.Suppose, instead, that Johnson Manufacturing chooses to allocate Factory Overhead on the basis of machine hours. If the estimated Factory Overhead for 2013 is $100,000 and estimated machine hours for 2013 are 25,000 machine hours, calculate the Predetermined Overhead Rate per machine hour.

12.Referring to question 11, if Johnson Manufacturing uses 300 machine hours in building Job 552, what entry would be made to apply the factory overhead?

13.Thinking about questions 9 and 11, a company has to make a choice as to which cost driver to use for applying the overhead. Under what circumstance might the company use direct labor hours? Under what circumstance might they use machine hours?

14.At the end of the year, a company compares the actual overhead with the overhead applied. Suppose that Johnson Company’s Factory Overhead account appears as follows at the end of 2013:
        Factory Overhead

Actual

Applied

104,000

102,000

Was the factory overhead underapplied or overapplied? (Did they apply too little or too much?) What entry would be made to close the Factory Overhead account. (The word “close” means “bring to a zero balance.”) See the section on disposal of factory overhead balance in the text.

15. Suppose, on the other hand, that the status of the Factory Overhead account is as follows at the end of the year

Factory Overhead

Actual

Applied

105,000

106,000


16. Was the factory overhead underapplied or overapplied?
17. What entry would be made to close the Factory Overhead account?

18. What entry is made when the goods get finished? (See entry g)

19.What two entries are made when goods get sold? (See entries h and i)

20.If period costs, such as office salaries and sales salaries are incurred, how would they be recorded? (See entry j)

21.If a job order costing system is used for a professional service business, would a finished goods account be used?

Actual

Applied

104,000

102,000

Explanation / Answer

Q6)

when labor charges are incurred in the factory for direct labor the entry would be made:

Q7)

Entry is made when factory overhead costs are incurred, such as indirect materials, indirect labor, factory power costs, and factory depreciation :

8)

  Predetermined Overhead Rate is being calculated as follows

Predetermined Overhead Rate = Estimated Overhead / Estimated Activity

9)

Predetermined Overhead Rate = Estimated Overhead / Estimated direct labor hour

Predetermined Overhead Rate = 100000/20000

Predetermined Overhead Rate = $ 5 per DLH

10)

Factory overhead Applied =  Predetermined Overhead Rate* Direct labor hour

Factory overhead Applied = 5*500

Factory overhead Applied = 2500

Entry Would be:

11)

Predetermined Overhead Rate per machine hour =  Estimated Overhead / Estimated machine labor hour

Predetermined Overhead Rate per machine hour = 100000/25000

Predetermined Overhead Rate per machine hour = $ 4 per Mhr

12)

Factory overhead Applied =  Predetermined Overhead Rate* Machine hour

Factory overhead Applied = 4*300

Factory overhead Applied = 1200

Entry Would be:

Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit Work in Process XXXX Wages Payable XXXX