Record manufacturing overhead

Refer to the data in Exercise 3-24A. Brooks’ accountant found an error in the expense records from the year reported. Depreciation on manufacturing plant and equipment was actually $401,000, not the $485,000 that had originally been reported. The unadjusted Cost of Goods Sold balance at year-end was $560,000.

Requirements

1. Prepare the journal entry(s) to record manufacturing overhead costs incurred.

2. Prepare the journal entry to record the manufacturing overhead allocated to jobs in production.

3. Use a T-account to determine whether manufacturing overhead is underallocated or overallocated and by how much.

4. Record the entry to close out the underallocated or overallocated manufacturing overhead.

5. What is the adjusted ending balance of Cost of Goods Sold?

 

Exercise 3-24A

Analyze manufacturing overhead

Brooks Foundry in Charleston, South Carolina, uses a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate to allocate overhead to individual jobs based on the machine hours required. At the beginning of the year, the company expected to incur the following:

Manufacturing overhead costs	$ 650,000
Direct labor cost	$1,300,000
Machine hours	81,250

At the end of the year, the company had actually incurred the following:

Direct labor cost	$1,190,000
Depreciation on manufacturing plant and equipment	$ 485,000
Property taxes on plant	$ 21,500
Sales salaries	$ 26,000
Delivery drivers’ wages	$ 14,500
Plant janitors’ wages	$ 11,000
Machine hours	54,500 hours

Requirements

1. Compute Brooks’ predetermined manufacturing overhead rate.

2. How much manufacturing overhead was allocated to jobs during the year?

3. How much manufacturing overhead was incurred during the year? Is manufacturing overhead underallocated or overallocated at the end of the year? By how much?

4. Were the jobs overcosted or undercosted? By how much?