Assignment

A manufacturing firm uses job-order costing. At the beginning of the year, the company's inventory balances were as follows:

Raw Materials: $24,000

Work In Process: $73,000

Finished Goods: $27,000

The company applies overhead to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. At the beginning of the year, the company estimated that it would work 45,000 machine-hours and incur $180,000 in manufacturing overhead cost. The following transactions were recorded for the year:

a. Raw materials were purchased, $416,000.

b. Raw materials were requisitioned for use in production, $420,000 ($380,000 direct and $40,000 indirect).

c. The following employee costs were incurred: direct labor, $414,000; indirect labor, $60,000; and administrative salaries, $212,000.

d. Selling costs, $141,000.

e. Factory utility costs, $20,000.

f. Depreciation for the year was $81,000 of which $73,000 is related to factory operations and $8,000 is related to selling, general, and administrative activities.

g. Manufacturing overhead was applied to jobs. The actual level of activity for the year was 48,000 machine-hours.

h. The cost of goods manufactured for the year was $1,004,000.

i. Sales for the year totaled $1,416,000 and the costs on the job cost sheets of the goods that were sold totaled $989,000.

j. The balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account was closed out to Cost of Goods Sold.

Required:

Prepare the appropriate journal entry for each of the items above (a. through j.). You can assume that all transactions with employees, customers, and suppliers were conducted in cash.