Financial & Managerial Accounting
Financial & Managerial Accounting
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781337119207
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 16, Problem 9DQ

(a)

(1)

To determine

Predetermined overhead

Factory overhead costs are applied or allocated to cost of job based on predetermined factory overhead rate. The formula to calculate the predetermined factory overhead rate is as follows:

Predetermined factory overhead rate = Estimated total factory overhead costsEstimated activity rate

To state: the meaning of over applied factory overhead.

(b)

To determine

To explain: if factory overhead is underapplied or overapplied if factory overhead has debit balance.

(c)

To determine

To state: the reporting of credit balance of factory overhead in interim balance sheet.

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Chapter 16 Solutions

Financial & Managerial Accounting

Ch. 16 - Issuance of materials On May 7, Bergan Company...Ch. 16 - Direct labor costs During May, Herman Company...Ch. 16 - Factory overhead costs During May, Bergan Company...Ch. 16 - Applying factory overhead Bergan Company estimates...Ch. 16 - Job costs At the end of May, Bergan Company had...Ch. 16 - Cost of goods sold Pine Creek Company completed...Ch. 16 - Transactions in a job order cost system Five...Ch. 16 - Cost flow relationships The following information...Ch. 16 - Cost of materials issuances under the FIFO method...Ch. 16 - Entry for issuing materials Materials issued for...Ch. 16 - Entries for materials GenX Furnishings Company...Ch. 16 - Entry for factory labor costs A summary of the...Ch. 16 - Entry for factory labor costs The weekly time...Ch. 16 - Entries for direct labor and factory overhead...Ch. 16 - Factory overhead rates, entries, and account...Ch. 16 - Predetermined factory overhead rate Spring Street...Ch. 16 - Predetermined factory overhead rate Poehling...Ch. 16 - Entry for jobs completed; cost of unfinished jobs...Ch. 16 - Entries for factory costs and jobs completed Old...Ch. 16 - Financial statements of a manufacturing firm The...Ch. 16 - Job order cost accounting for a service company...Ch. 16 - Job order cost accounting for a service company...Ch. 16 - Entries for costs in a job order cost system...Ch. 16 - Entries and schedules for unfinished jobs and...Ch. 16 - Job order cost sheet Remnant Carpet Company sells...Ch. 16 - Analyzing manufacturing cost accounts Fire Rock...Ch. 16 - Flow of costs and income statement Ginocera Inc....Ch. 16 - Entries for costs in a job order cost system Royal...Ch. 16 - Entries and schedules for unfinished jobs and...Ch. 16 - Job order cost sheet Stretch and Trim Carpet...Ch. 16 - Analyzing manufacturing cost accounts Clapton...Ch. 16 - Prob. 16.5BPRCh. 16 - Prob. 16.1TIFCh. 16 - Team Activity As an assistant cost accountant for...Ch. 16 - Carol Creedence, the plant manager of the...
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  • Nelson Fabrication Inc. had a remaining credit balance of $20,000 in its under- and overapplied factory overhead account at year-end. The balance was deemed to be large and, therefore, should be closed to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold. The year-end balances of these accounts, before adjustment, showed the following: Determine the prorated amount of the overapplied factory overhead that is chargeable to each of the accounts. Prepare the journal entry to close the credit balance in Under-and Overapplied Factory Overhead.
    JOURNAL ENTRIES FOR FACTORY OVERHEAD Huang Company manufactures toys. It keeps a factory overhead account where actual factory overhead costs are recorded as a debit, and factory overhead applied is recorded as a credit. At the end of the month, under- or overapplied factory overhead is calculated and transferred to the cost of goods sold account. For the month of January, Huang had the following overhead transactions. Make appropriate general journal entries to record factory overhead and factory overhead applied, and to close the under- or overapplied factory overhead to the cost of goods sold account. Jan.1 Paid rent, 1,000. 10 Paid electricity bill, 250. 15 Paid repair expense, 1,500. 21 Vacation pay for machine operator, 500 (Wages Payable). 31 Depreciation expense for the month, 450. 31 Factory overhead applied was 3,500.
    Mountain Tops applies overhead on the basis of direct labor hours and reports the following information: A. What is the predetermined overhead rate? B. How much overhead was applied during the year? C. Was overhead over applied or under applied, and by what amount? D. What is the journal entry to dispose of the over applied or under applied overhead?
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