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The Fly Company provides advertising services for clients across the nation. The Fly Company is presently working on four projects, each for a different client. The Fly Company accumulates costs for each account (client) on the basis of both direct costs and allocated indirect costs. The direct costs include the charged time of professional personnel and media purchases (air time and ad space).
On August 1, the four advertising projects had the following accumulated costs:
| August 1 Balances | ||
| Vault Bank | $62,200 | |
| Take Off Airlines | 18,700 | |
| Sleepy Tired Hotels | 43,500 | |
| Tastee Beverages | 26,700 | |
| Total | $151,100 |
During August, The Fly Company incurred the following direct labor and media purchase costs related to preparing advertising for each of the four accounts:
| Direct Labor | Media Purchases | |||
| Vault Bank | $41,600 | $157,800 | ||
| Take Off Airlines | 18,600 | 138,900 | ||
| Sleepy Tired Hotels | 81,800 | 101,400 | ||
| Tastee Beverages | 93,100 | 75,900 | ||
| Total | $235,100 | $474,000 |
At the end of August, both the Vault Bank and Take Off Airlines campaigns were completed. The costs of completed campaigns are debited to the cost of services account.
a)Journalize the summary entry to record the direct labor costs for the month.
b)Journalize the summary entry to record the media purchases for the month.
c) Journalize the summary entry to record the overhead applied for the month.
d)Journalize the summary entry to record the completion of Vault Bank and Take Off Airlines for the month.
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This question provides that Overhead is 50% of the media purchase and asking the journal entries for Labor, Media Purchase, overhead, and completion of Vault Bank and Take Off Airlines record for the month as per given data.
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