1. Victor Holt, the accounting manager of Benson, Inc., gathered the following information for 2017. Some of it can be used to construct an income statement for 2017. Ignore items that do not appear on an income statement. Some computation may be required. For example, the cost of manufacturing equipment would not appear on the income statement. However, the cost of manufacturing equipment is needed to compute the amount of depreciation. All units of product were started and completed in 2017.

Issued $875,000 of common stock.

Paid engineers in the product design department $10,000 for salaries that were accrued at the end of the previous year.

Incurred advertising expenses of $65,000.

Paid $780,000 for materials used to manufacture the companys product.

Incurred utility costs of $100,000. These costs were allocated to different departments on the basis of square footage of floor space. Mr. Holt identified three departments and determined the square footage of floor space for each department to be as shown in the table below.

Department	Square Footage
Research and development		10,000
Manufacturing		60,000
Selling and administrative		30,000
Total		100,000

Paid $833,000 for wages of production workers.

Paid cash of $643,000 for salaries of administrative personnel. There was $16,600 of accrued salaries owed to administrative personnel at the end of 2017. There was no beginning balance in the Salaries Payable account for administrative personnel.

Purchased manufacturing equipment two years ago at a cost of $10,200,000. The equipment had an eight-year useful life and a $2,040,000 salvage value.

Paid $342,000 cash to engineers in the product design department.

Paid a $223,000 cash dividend to owners.

Paid $85,000 to set up manufacturing equipment for production.

Paid a one-time $185,000 restructuring cost to redesign the production process to implement a just-in-time inventory system.

Prepaid the premium on a new insurance policy covering nonmanufacturing employees. The policy cost $75,600 and had a one-year term with an effective starting date of May 1. Four employees work in the research and development department and eight employees work in the selling and administrative department. Assume a December 31 closing date.

Made 69,450 units of product and sold 62,850 units at a price of $70 each.

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a-3. Identify the items that are classified as downstream costs and determine the amount of downstream cost expensed on the 2017 income statement.

Downstream Costs:
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