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:

BudgetActualDirect Labor$420,000$400,000Manufacturing overhead$252,000$186,840

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

Ending Work In Process: Direct Materials$64,000 Direct Labor50,000 Overhead30,000$144,000

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. 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.

1. 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).

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