Question

The Polaris Company uses a job-order costing system. The following transactions occurred in October:

1. Raw materials purchased on account, $210,000.
2. Raw materials used in production, $191,000 ($152,800 direct materials and $38,200 indirect materials).
3. Accrued direct labor cost of $48,000 and indirect labor cost of $21,000.
4. Depreciation recorded on factory equipment, $106,000.
5. Other manufacturing overhead costs accrued during October, $129,000.
6. The company applies manufacturing overhead cost to production using a predetermined rate of $6 per machine-hour. A total of 76,400 machine-hours were used in October.
7. Jobs costing $512,000 according to their job cost sheets were completed during October and transferred to Finished Goods.
8. Jobs that had cost $452,000 to complete according to their job cost sheets were shipped to customers during the month. These jobs were sold on account at 32% above cost.

Required:

1. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions given above.

2. Prepare T-accounts for Manufacturing Overhead and Work in Process. Post the relevant transactions from above to each account. Compute the ending balance in each account, assuming that Work in Process has a beginning balance of $35,000.

Answer 1