ARKANSAS CORPORATION   …… is a company that produces machinery to customer order

ARKANSAS CORPORATION

…… is a company that produces machinery to customer order.  Its job costing system, using normal costing, has two direct cost categories, direct materials and direct labor, and one indirect cost pool, manufacturing overhead, allocated using a budgeted rate based on direct labor costs.  Budgeted and actual information for 2016 are as follows:

At the end of 2016, the ending work in process consisted of:

There were no beginning work-in-process or finished-goods inventories. Ending Finished Goods showed a balance of $156,000, which included overhead costs of $25,200. 

Cost of goods sold was $1,600,000, of which $184,800 consisted of applied overhead.

Required:

1. What is the predetermined overhead rate (per direct labor dollar)?

2. How much overhead was applied to production during 2016?  What was the journal entry to record this?
3. What were the journal entries to record actual overhead in 2016?
4. Calculate the under/overapplied overhead for 2016.

5. ASSUME that the company decides to write off the entire over/underapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.  Prepare the adjusting entry to close the misapplied overhead.

6. Is this method really right?  Why or why not?
7. Assume that the under/overapplied overhead is considered material in nature. Round final answers to nearest dollar.  Prorate the amount computed in requirement two above on the basis of:

1. Ending balances of the appropriate accounts (before any adjustment).

2. The amount of applied overhead in the ending balances of the appropriate accounts (before any adjustment).

8. Prepare the adjusting journal entries for 7a and 7b.  Which approach is theoretically preferred?  WHY?