Arnold Company is a manufacturing firm that uses work order costing. The company's year-end and year-end inventory
Question:
Arnold Company is a manufacturing firm that uses work order costing. The company's year-end and year-end inventory balances are as follows:
Initial balance | Ending Balance | |
raw materials | 21.000 $ | 24.000 $ |
In-process work | 40.000 $ | 22.000 $ |
Finished goods | 26.000 $ | 41.000 $ |
The company charges overhead on jobs using a predetermined overhead rate based on machine hours. At the beginning of the year, the company estimated it would run 38,000 machine-hours and incur an overall production cost of $266,000.
The following transactions were recorded for the year: Raw material purchased, $300,000.
- $297,000 ($281,000 direct and $16,000 indirect) raw materials were requested to be used in production.
- The following employee costs occurred:
- direct labor, $389,000;
- indirect labor, $62,000; and
- administrative salaries, $176,000.
- Cost of sale, $160,000.
- Factory operating costs, $19,000.
- Depreciation for the year was $143,000, of which $137,000 was related to factory operations and $6,000 was related to sales, general and administrative activities.
- A general production load was applied to the jobs.
- The actual activity level for the year was 34,000 machine-hours.
- Sales for the year amounted to $1,283,000
Based on the above data, you need to do the following:
i) To prepare the cost table of the goods produced in a good way.
ii) Has the overhead been under-applied or over-applied? How much?
iii) Prepare an income statement for the year in good shape. The company charges under-applied or over-applied overheads to Cost of Goods Sold.
Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 978-1259307416
16th edition
Authors: Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen, Peter Brewer