Exam 2: Job-Order Costing

On August 1, Shead Corporation had $35,000 of raw materials on hand. During the month, the company purchased an additional $56,000 of raw materials. During August, $69,000 of raw materials were requisitioned from the storeroom for use in production. These raw materials included both direct and indirect materials. The indirect materials totaled $6,000. Prepare journal entries to record these events. Use those journal entries to answer the following questions: The credits to the Work in Process account as a consequence of the raw materials transactions in August total:

The Work in Process inventory account of a manufacturing Corporation shows a balance of $18,000 at the end of an accounting period. The job cost sheets of the two uncompleted jobs show charges of $6,000 and $3,000 for materials, and charges of $4,000 and $2,000 for direct labor. From this information, it appears that the Corporation is using a predetermined overhead rate, as a percentage of direct labor costs, of:

Sawyer Manufacturing Corporation uses a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours to apply manufacturing overhead to jobs. Last year, the Corporation worked 57,000 actual direct labor-hours and incurred $345,000 of actual manufacturing overhead cost. The Corporation had estimated that it would work 55,000 direct labor-hours during the year and incur $330,000 of manufacturing overhead cost. The Corporation's manufacturing overhead cost for the year was:

Chelm Music Corporation manufactures violins, violas, cellos, and fiddles and uses a job-order costing system. What is one of the accounts that Chelm should credit when goods are sold?

The following data have been recorded for recently completed Job 323 on its job cost sheet. Direct materials cost was $2,260. A total of 37 direct labor-hours and 141 machine-hours were worked on the job. The direct labor wage rate is $13 per labor-hour. The Corporation applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machine-hours. The predetermined overhead rate is $14 per machine-hour. The total cost for the job on its job cost sheet would be:

Baker Corporation applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the most recent year, the company based its predetermined overhead rate on total estimated overhead of $210,600 and 6,000 estimated direct labor-hours. Actual manufacturing overhead for the year amounted to $209,000 and actual direct labor-hours were 5,980. The predetermined overhead rate for the year was closest to:

Hibshman Corporation bases its predetermined overhead rate on the estimated machine-hours for the upcoming year. At the beginning of the most recently completed year, the Corporation estimated the machine-hours for the upcoming year at 10,000 machine-hours. The estimated variable manufacturing overhead was $6.82 per machine-hour and the estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead was $230,200. The predetermined overhead rate for the recently completed year was closest to:

At the beginning of the year, manufacturing overhead for the year was estimated to be $477,590. At the end of the year, actual direct labor-hours for the year were 29,000 hours, the actual manufacturing overhead for the year was $472,590, and manufacturing overhead for the year was overapplied by $110. If the predetermined overhead rate is based on direct labor-hours, then the estimated direct labor-hours at the beginning of the year used in the predetermined overhead rate must have been:

The sum of all amounts transferred from the Work in Process account to the Finished Goods account represents the Cost of Goods Sold for the period.

Job 397 was recently completed. The following data have been recorded on its job cost sheet: The company applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The predetermined overhead rate is $37 per direct labor-hour. Required: Compute the unit product cost that would appear on the job cost sheet for this job.

Galbraith Corporation applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of 70% of direct labor cost. If Job 201 shows $28,000 of manufacturing overhead applied, the direct labor cost on the job was:

What journal entry is made in a job-order costing system when $8,000 of materials are requisitioned for general factory use instead of for use in a particular job?

During January, Shanker Corporation recorded the following: Required: Prepare T-accounts for Raw Materials, Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Manufacturing Overhead, and Cost of Goods Sold. Record the beginning balances and each of the transactions listed above. Finally, determine the ending balances.

Baker Corporation applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the most recent year, the company based its predetermined overhead rate on total estimated overhead of $210,600 and 6,000 estimated direct labor-hours. Actual manufacturing overhead for the year amounted to $209,000 and actual direct labor-hours were 5,980. The applied manufacturing overhead for the year was closest to:

Traves Corporation incurred $69,000 of actual Manufacturing Overhead costs during October. During the same period, the Manufacturing Overhead applied to Work in Process was $68,000. The journal entry to record the application of Manufacturing Overhead to Work in Process would include a:

Killian Corporation began operations on January 1. The predetermined overhead rate was set at $6.00 per direct labor-hour. Debits to Work in Process for the year totaled $550,000. Credits to Work in Process totaled $480,000. Analysis of the Corporation's records indicate that direct labor cost totaled $250,000 for the year, which represents 20,000 direct labor-hours. If the actual manufacturing overhead cost for the year totaled $145,000, then overhead was:

Messana Corporation reported the following data for the month of August: The adjusted cost of goods sold that appears on the income statement for August is:

Indirect materials are charged to specific jobs.

Paulson Corporation uses a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours to apply manufacturing overhead to jobs. The Corporation has provided the following estimated costs for next year: Paulson estimated that 40,000 direct labor-hours and 20,000 machine-hours would be worked during the year. The predetermined overhead rate per machine-hour will be:

Chelm Music Corporation manufactures violins, violas, cellos, and fiddles and uses a job-order costing system. What account should Chelm debit when the workers who carve the wood for the instruments have earned their pay?