book: Fundamentals of cost accounting

chapter 7: job costing

Southern Rim Parts estimates its manufacturing overhead to be $282,000 and its direct labor costs to be $940,000 for year 1. The first three jobs that Southern Rim worked on had actual direct labor costs of $53,000 for Job 301, $78,000 for Job 302, and $115,000 for Job 303. For the year, actual manufacturing overhead was $459,000 and total direct labor cost was $846,000. Manufacturing overhead is applied to jobs on the basis of direct labor costs using predetermined rates.

Overhead applied in each of the inventory accounts is as follows:

Work-in-process inventory	$	28,410
Finished goods inventory		113,640
Cost of goods sold		331,450

Required:

Prepare an entry to allocate the under- or overapplied overhead.