The Polaris Company uses a job-order costing system. Thefollowing transactions occurred in October:
- Raw materials purchased on account, $210,000.
- Raw materials used in production, $190,000 ($152,000direct materials and $38,000 indirect materials).
- Accrued direct labor cost of $49,000 and indirectlabor cost of $20,000.
- Depreciation recorded on factory equipment,$106,000.
- Other manufacturing overhead costs accrued duringOctober, $129,000.
- The company applies manufacturing overhead cost toproduction using a predetermined rate of $7 per machine-hour. Atotal of 76,300 machine-hours were used in October.
- Jobs costing $512,000 according to their job costsheets were completed during October and transferred to FinishedGoods.
- Jobs that had cost $451,000 to complete according totheir job cost sheets were shipped to customers during the month.These jobs were sold on account at 34% above cost.
Required:
1. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions givenabove.
2. Prepare T-accounts for Manufacturing Overhead and Work inProcess. Post the relevant transactions from above to each account.Compute the ending balance in each account, assuming that Work inProcess has a beginning balance of $34,000.
Prepare T-accounts for Manufacturing Overhead and Work inProcess. Post the relevant transactions from above to each account.Compute the ending balance in each account, assuming that Work inProcess has a beginning balance of $34,000.
Manufacturing overhead
Work in process
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