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Toby Company uses a normal job costing system and allocates overhead to jobs using a

predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor cost. Budgeted and actual overhead and

direct labor costs for the year follow:

Budgeted Actual

Manufacturing overhead $$250,000$ $$210,000$

Direct labor costs $$125,000$ $$112,000$

Toby had the following balances and transactions for the month of May.

Balances on May $1$:

Finished Goods $($Job #$50)$ $$14,200$ Work in Process $($Job #$51)$ $$3,100$

Jobs $52$ and $53$ were started during May. A summary of source documents for May suggests the following materials and labor were used during the month of May:

Job # Materials Requisitions Labor Time Records

$51$ $ $1,900$ $ $3,700$

$523,5005,100$

$534,1004,600$

General factory use $1,3002,300$

Total $$10,800$ $$15,700$

During May, Jobs $51$ and $52$ were completed and Jobs $50$ and $51$ were sold.

Required:

$1.$ Use Toby$$s predetermined overhead rate to compute the total amount of overhead allocated to production $($to the jobs$)$ for the month of May?

$2.$ What is Toby$$s balance in Work in Process inventory at the end of May?

$3.$ What is Toby$$s balance in Finished Goods inventory at the end of May?

$4.$ What is Toby$$s cost of goods manufactured $($cost of jobs completed$)$ and transferred from Work in Process to Finished Goods in May?

$5.$ How much is Toby$$s Cost of Goods Sold in May?

$6.$ How much is Toby$$s overhead under or over absorbed by for the year? Is it under or over?

$7.$ Perform transaction analysis to write off Toby$$s under or over absorbed overhead amount for the year using the direct method.

$8.$ Describe how the transaction analysis would differ if instead of using the direct method to write off the year$$s under or over absorbed overhead amount Toby used the proration method to write it off. How would Cost of Goods Sold and Net Income be impacted by this change in method?