Concept explainers
Overhead:
Direct Labor Cost:
Direct labor cost is the cost that a company incurs in giving wages to the people that are directly associated with the production work.
Journal Entries:
Journal entries are the entries that are made in the books of accounts to record every transaction that happens in the business in the chronological order.
Accounting rules for journal entries:
- To increase balance of the account: Debit assets, expenses, losses and credit all liabilities, capital, revenue and gains.
- To decrease balance of the account: Credit assets, expenses, losses and debit all liabilities, capital, revenue and gains.
1.
To compute: The predetermined overhead rate for 2017.
2.
To prepare: T account for factory overhead.
Factory Overhead | |||||
Date | Particular | Debit ($) | Date | Particular | Credit ($) |
Balance b/f | 830,000 | Applied overhead | 822,00 | ||
Balance c/f | 8,000 | ||||
830,000 | 830,000 | ||||
Table (1) |
3.
The overhead is over applied or under applied.
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solutionChapter 15 Solutions
FIN & MANAGERIAL ACCT VOL 2 W/CONNECT
- Poonam's material quantity variance is favorable or unfavorablearrow_forward??arrow_forwardPoonam has a standard of 1.5 pounds of materials per unit, at S6 per pound. In producing 2,000 units, Poonam used 3,100 pounds of materials at a total cost of $18,135. Poonam's material quantity variance is favorable or unfavorable?arrow_forward
- General Accountingarrow_forwardSubject: General Accountingarrow_forwardThe following information describes a company's usage of direct labor in a recent period: Actual direct labor hours used 32,500 Actual rate per hour $18.00 Standard rate per hour $16.50 Standard hours for units produced 32,000 How much is the direct labor efficiency variance? Answer: $8,250 unfavorablearrow_forward
- AccountingAccountingISBN:9781337272094Author:WARREN, Carl S., Reeve, James M., Duchac, Jonathan E.Publisher:Cengage Learning,Accounting Information SystemsAccountingISBN:9781337619202Author:Hall, James A.Publisher:Cengage Learning,
- Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis...AccountingISBN:9780134475585Author:Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. RajanPublisher:PEARSONIntermediate AccountingAccountingISBN:9781259722660Author:J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M ThomasPublisher:McGraw-Hill EducationFinancial and Managerial AccountingAccountingISBN:9781259726705Author:John J Wild, Ken W. Shaw, Barbara Chiappetta Fundamental Accounting PrinciplesPublisher:McGraw-Hill Education