Exercise 3-5 (Algo) Journal Entries and T-accounts [LO3-1, LO3-2]

The Polaris Company uses a job-order costing system. The following transactions occurred in October:

Raw materials purchased on account, $210,000.

Raw materials used in production, $191,000 ($152,800 direct materials and $38,200 indirect materials).

Accrued direct labor cost of $49,000 and indirect labor cost of $22,000.

Depreciation recorded on factory equipment, $105,000.

Other manufacturing overhead costs accrued during October, $129,000.

The company applies manufacturing overhead cost to production using a predetermined rate of $8 per machine-hour. A total of 76,200 machine-hours were used in October.

Jobs costing $511,000 according to their job cost sheets were completed during October and transferred to Finished Goods.

Jobs that had cost $448,000 to complete according to their job cost sheets were shipped to customers during the month. These jobs were sold on account at 40% above cost.

Required: 1. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions given above.

2. Prepare T-accounts for Manufacturing Overhead and Work in Process. Post the relevant transactions from above to each account. Compute the ending balance in each account, assuming that Work in Process has a beginning balance of $37,000.