Brooks Foundry uses a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate to allocate overhead to individual jobs, based on the machine hours required. At the beginning of 2012, the company expected to incur the following:
Manufacturing overhead costs . . . . . . . . $ 840,000
Direct labor costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,550,000
Machine hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,000 hours
At the end of 2012, the company had actually incurred:
Direct labor cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,160,000
Depreciation on manufacturing property,
plant, and equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600,000
Property taxes on plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000
Sales salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,500
Delivery drivers’ wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,500
Plant janitor’s wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,000
Machine hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,000 hour
Requirements
1. Compute Brooks’ predetermined manufacturing overhead rate.
2. Prepare the journal entry to allocate manufacturing overhead.
3. Post the manufacturing overhead transactions to the Manufacturing overhead T account. Is manufacturing overhead under allocated or over allocated? By how much?
4. Close the Manufacturing overhead account to Cost of goods sold. Does your entry increase or decrease cost of goods sold?
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