In: Accounting
In December 2016, Learer Company’s manager estimated next year’s
total direct labor cost assuming 30 persons working an average of
2,500 hours each at an average wage rate of $30 per hour. The
manager also estimated the following manufacturing overhead costs
for 2017.
Indirect labor | $ | 323,200 | |
Factory supervision | 262,000 | ||
Rent on factory building | 144,000 | ||
Factory utilities | 92,000 | ||
Factory insurance expired | 72,000 | ||
Depreciation—Factory equipment | 280,000 | ||
Repairs expense—Factory equipment | 64,000 | ||
Factory supplies used | 72,800 | ||
Miscellaneous production costs | 40,000 | ||
Total estimated overhead costs | $ | 1,350,000 | |
At the end of 2017, records show the company incurred $1,566,000 of
actual overhead costs. It completed and sold five jobs with the
following direct labor costs: Job 201, $608,000; Job 202, $567,000;
Job 203, $302,000; Job 204, $720,000; and Job 205, $318,000. In
addition, Job 206 is in process at the end of 2017 and had been
charged $21,000 for direct labor. No jobs were in process at the
end of 2016. The company’s predetermined overhead rate is based on
direct labor cost.
Required
1-a. Determine the predetermined overhead rate for
2017.
1-b. Determine the total overhead cost applied to
each of the six jobs during 2017.
1-c. Determine the over- or underapplied overhead
at year-end 2017.
2. Assuming that any over- or underapplied
overhead is not material, prepare the adjusting entry to allocate
any over- or underapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold at the end
of 2017.