Erkens Company uses a job costing system with normal costing and applies factory overhead on the basis of machine hours. At the beginning of the year, management estimated that the company would incur $2,244,000 of factory overhead costs and use 66,000 machine hours.

Erkens Company recorded the following events during the month of April:

1. Purchased 194,000 pounds of materials on account; the cost was $5.70 per pound.

2. Issued 127,000 pounds of materials to production, of which 18,500 pounds were used as indirect materials.

3. Incurred direct labor costs of $275,000 and $47,000 of indirect labor costs.

4. Recorded depreciation on equipment for the month, $77,100.

5. Recorded expired insurance costs for the manufacturing property, $4,200.

6. Paid $9,200 cash for utilities and other miscellaneous items for the manufacturing plant.

7. Completed Job H11 costing $8,200 and Job G28 costing $80,500 during the month and transferred them to the Finished goods inventory account.

8. Shipped Job G28 to the customer during the month. The job was invoiced at 30% above cost.

9. Used 9,100 machine hours during April.

Required:

1. Compute Erkens Companys predetermined overhead rate for the year.

2. Prepare journal entries to record the events that occurred during April.

3-a. Compute the amount of overapplied or underapplied overhead.

3-b. Prepare a journal entry to close overapplied or underapplied overhead into cost of goods sold on April 30.