Question

Port Ormond Carpet Company manufactures carpets. Fiber is placed in process in the Spinning Department, where it is spun into yarn. The output of the Spinning Department is transferred to the Tufting Department, where carpet backing is added at the beginning of the process and the process is completed. On January 1, Port Ormond Carpet Company had the following inventories:

Finished Goods	$62,000
Work in Process-Spinning Department	35,000
Work in Process-Tufting Department	28,500
Materials	17,000

Departmental accounts are maintained for factory overhead, and both have zero balances on January 1. Manufacturing operations for January are summarized as follows:

Jan.	1	Materials purchased on account, $500,000
	2	Materials requisitioned for use:
		Fiber—Spinning Department, $275,000
		Carpet backing—Tufting Department, $110,000
		Indirect materials—Spinning Department, $46,000
		Indirect materials—Tufting Department, $39,500
	31	Labor used:
		Direct labor—Spinning Department, $185,000
		Direct labor—Tufting Department, $98,000
		Indirect labor—Spinning Department, $18,500
		Indirect labor—Tufting Department, $9,000
	31	Depreciation charged on fixed assets:
		Spinning Department, $12,500
		Tufting Department, $8,500
	31	Expired prepaid factory insurance:
		Spinning Department, $2,000
		Tufting Department, $1,000
	31	Applied factory overhead:
		Spinning Department, $80,000
		Tufting Department, $55,000
	31	Production costs transferred from Spinning Department to Tufting Department, $547,000
	31	Production costs transferred from Tufting Department to Finished Goods, $807,200
	31	Cost of goods sold during the period, $795,200

	Required:
1.	Journalize the entries to record the operations, using the dates provided with the summary of manufacturing operations. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.
2.	Compute the January 31 balances of the inventory accounts.
3.	Compute the January 31 balances of the factory overhead accounts.

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