Allocating manufacturing overhead 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:
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Manufacturing overhead costs |
$ 840,000 |
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Direct labor costs |
1,550,000 |
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Machine hours |
70,000 hours |
At the end of 2012, the company had actually incurred:
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Direct labor cost |
$1,160,000 |
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Depreciation on manufacturing property, plant, |
|
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and equipment |
600,000 |
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Property taxes on plant |
40,000 |
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Sales salaries |
26,500 |
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Delivery drivers’ wages |
23,500 |
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Plant janitor’s wages |
17,000 |
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Machine hours |
hours67,000 |
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 underallocated or overallocated? By how much?
4. Close the Manufacturing overhead account to Cost of goods sold. Does your entry increase or decrease cost of goods sold?