. Identify the options available for disposing of under applied or over applied overhead?

The Pacific Manufacturing Company operates a job-order costing system and applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of direct labor cost.

 

P3-24 The Pacific Manufacturing Company operates a job-order costing system and applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of direct labor cost. Its predetermined overhead rate was based on a cost formula that estimated $126,000 of manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of $84,000 direct labor dollars.

 

The company has provided the following data.

Beginning        Ending

Raw Materials                          $21,000           $16,000

Work in Process                       $44,000           $40,000

Finished Goods                        $68,000           $60,000

 

The following actual costs were incurred during the year:

Purchase of raw materials (all direct) $133,000

Direct labor cost $80,000

Manufacturing overhead costs:

Insurance, factory $7,000

Depreciation of equipment $18,000

Indirect labor $42,000

Property taxes $9,000

Maintenance $11,000

Rent, building $36,000

 

Required:

1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate for the year.

1-b. Compute the amount of under applied or over applied overhead for the year.

  1. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for the year. Assume all raw materials are used in productions direct materials.

3-a. Compute the adjusted cost of goods sold for the year. (Do not include any under applied or  over applied overhead in your cost of goods sold figure.)

3-b. Identify the options available for disposing of under applied or over applied overhead? (You may select more than one answer.

  1. Job 137 was started and completed during the year. What price would have been charged to the customer if the job required $3,200 in materials and $4,200 in direct labor cost, and compartmentalized its jobs at 40% above the job’s cost according to the accounting system?
  2. Direct labor made up $8,000 of the $40,000 ending Work in Process inventory balance. Supply the information missing below