Assignment
Aucton Corporation is a manufacturing company that uses activity-based costing for its external financial reports. The company's activity cost pools and associated data for the coming year appear below:
Activity Cost Pool
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Actual Activity
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Estimated Overhead Cost
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Actual Activity
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Machining
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Machine-hours
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$180,000
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1,000 MHs
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Purchase orders
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Number of orders
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$90,000
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600 orders
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Parts management
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Number of part types
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$60,000
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300 part types
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Testing
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Number of tests
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$150,000
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250 tests
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General factory
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Direct labor-hours
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$280,000
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20,000 DLHs
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At the beginning of the year, the company had inventory balances as follows:
Raw materials $7,000
Work in process $6,000
Finished goods $10,000
The following transactions were recorded for the year:
a. Raw materials were purchased on account, $595,000.
b. Raw materials were withdrawn from the storeroom for use in production, $600,000 ($560,000 direct and $40,000 indirect).
c. The following costs were incurred for employee services: direct labor, $90,000; indirect labor, $300,000; sales commissions, $85,000; and administrative salaries, $245,000.
d. Sales travel costs were incurred, $38,000.
e. Various factory overhead costs were incurred, $237,000.
f. Advertising costs were incurred, $190,000.
g. Depreciation was recorded for the year, $270,000 ($210,000 related to factory operations and $60,000 related to selling and administrative activities).
h. Manufacturing overhead was applied to products. Actual activity for the year was as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
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Actual Activity
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Machining
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1,050 MHs
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Purchase orders
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580 orders
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Parts management
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330 part types
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Testing
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265 tests
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General factory
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21,000 DLHs
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i. Goods were completed and transferred to the finished goods warehouse. According to the company's activity-based costing system, these finished goods cost $1,450,000 to manufacture.
Goods were sold on account to customers during the year for a total of $2,100,000. According to the company's activity-based costing system, the goods cost $1,400,000 to manufacture.
Required:
1. Compute the predetermined overhead rate (i.e., activity rate) for each activity cost pool.
2. Prepare journal entries to record transactions (a) through (j) above:
3. Post the entries in part (2) above to T-accounts.
4. Compute the underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead cost. Prepare a journal entry to close any balance in the Manufacturing Overhead account to Cost of Goods Sold. Post the entry to the appropriate T-accounts.
5. Prepare an income statement for the year.