Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 3, Problem 57P
Scholastic Brass Corporation manufactures brass musical instruments for use by high school students. The company uses a normal costing system, in which manufacturing overhead is applied on the basis of direct-labor hours. The company’s budget for the current year included the following predictions.
During March, the firm worked on the following two production jobs:
Job number T81, consisting of 76 trombones
Job number C40, consisting of 110 cornets
The events of March are described as follows:
- a. One thousand square feet of rolled brass sheet metal were purchased on account for $5,000.
- b. Four hundred pounds of brass tubing were purchased on account for $4,000.
- c. The following requisitions were submitted on March 5:
Requisition number 112: 250 square feet of brass sheet metal at $5 per square foot (for job number T81)
Requisition number 113: 1,000 pounds of brass tubing, at $10 per pound (for job number C40)
Requisition number 114: 10 gallons of valve lubricant, at $10 per gallon
All brass used in production is treated as direct material. Valve lubricant is an indirect material.
- d. An analysis of labor time cards revealed the following labor usage for March.
Direct labor: Job number T81, 800 hours at $20 per hour
Direct labor: Job number C40, 900 hours at $20 per hour
Indirect labor: General factory cleanup, $4,000
Indirect labor: Factory supervisory salaries, $9,000
- e. Depreciation of the factory building and equipment during March amounted to $12,000.
- f. Rent paid in cash for warehouse space used during March was $1,200.
- g. Utility costs incurred during March amounted to $2,100. The invoices for these costs were received, but the bills were not paid in March.
- h. March property taxes on the factory were paid in cash, $2,400.
- i. The insurance cost covering factory operations for the month of March was $3,100. The insurance policy had been prepaid.
- j. The costs of salaries and
fringe benefits for sales and administrative personnel paid in cash during March amounted to $8,000. - k. Depreciation on administrative office equipment and space amounted to $4,000.
- l. Other selling and administrative expenses paid in cash during March amounted to $1,000.
- m. Job number T81 was completed on March 20.
- n. Half of the trombones in job number T81 were sold on account during March for $700 each.
The March 1 balances in selected accounts are as follows:
Required:
- 1. Calculate the company’s predetermined overhead rate for the year.
- 2. Prepare journal entries to record the events of March.
- 3. Set up T-accounts, and
post the journal entries made in requirement (2). - 4. Calculate the over applied or under applied overhead for March. Prepare a
journal entry to close this balance into Cost of Goods Sold. - 5. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for March.
- 6. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods sold for March.
- 7. Prepare an income statement for March.
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