Exercise $3-9($Static$)$ Applying Overhead; T$-$accounts; Journal Entries $[$LO$3-1,$ LO$3-2,$ LO$3-4]$

Harwood Company uses a job$-$order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine$-$hours. The company's predetermined overhead rate of $$2\mathrm{.}40$ per machine$-$hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $$192,000$ of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of $80,000$ machine$-$hours.

Required:

Assume that during the year the company works only $75,000$ machine$-$hours and incurs the following costs in the Manufacturing Overhead and Work in Process accounts: Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to Work in Process for the year and make the entry in your T$-$accounts.

$2$A$.$ Compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your Manufacturing Overhead T$-$account.

$2$B$.$ Prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold.

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Req $1$

Req $2$A

Req $2$B

Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to Work in Process for the year and make the entry in your T$-$accounts.

$\backslash$table$[[$Manufacturing Overhead,Work in Process$],[$Debit$,$redit,Debit,Credit$],[($Maintenance$),21,000,($a$),($Direct materials$),710,000,],[($Indirect materials$),8,000,,($Direct labor$),90,000,],[($Indirect labor$),60,000,,($Overhead$)($a$),,],[($Utilities$),32,000,,,,],[($Insurance$),7,000,,,,],[($Depreciation$),56,000,,,,],[$Balance$,,,,,]]$