Flowchart of Work Flow Document for a Joshua Manufacturing Company: In the Inventory Control Department, Inventory Status Reports are created based on raw materials and finished goods. The report is forwarded to the Production Control Department. The Production Control Department also receives the Factory Availability Report, which states how much capacity is available (machinery, time and labour availability) or how much it could produce, from the Production Department. Based on these reports, the Production Control Department generates three documents: Production Order, Materials Requisition, and Production Schedule. The Production Order contains three copies, of which copy 1 is sent to the Cost Accounting Department, copy 2 is sent to the Production Department, copy 3 is filed numerically within the Production Control Department. The production order is the formal document that authorizes production to begin. The Material Requisition contains 4 copies, of which copies 1, 2 and 3 are sent to the Inventory Control Department and copy 4 is filed numerically within the Production Control Department. Materials requisitions are used to issue material from the warehouse into production. In the Inventory Control Department, copy 1 of the Material Requisition is sent to the Cost Accounting Department (for the posting of material cost to WIP), copy 2 is forwarded to the Production Department (with the direct and indirect materials), and copy 3 is filed numerically within the Department. The Production Schedule contains 2 copies, of which copy 1 is sent to the Production Department and copy 2 is filed by date within the Production Control Department. In the Inventory control department, a Journal Voucher is prepared based on the Material Requisition and is sent to the General Ledger where the materials placed in production are recorded. Work in Process shows a debit for direct materials, Manufacturing Overhead is debited for material overhead, and Inventory Control credits raw materials inventory. Production may now begin. In the Production Department Job Time Cards are forwarded to the Cost Accounting Department. In Cost Accounting, the job time cards are used to debit the work in process account for direct labour and manufacturing overhead for indirect labor. The credit account would be to Wages/Salaries Payable. As production proceeds, the Production Status report is forwarded from the Production Department to the Production Control Department. When production is completed, Copy 2 of the Materials Requisition is attached to the completed Production Order and forwarded to the Inventory Control Department. The Inventory Control Department then forwards the completed Production order to the Cost Accounting Department after posting it to the inventory records (debit finished goods). In the cost accounting department, copy 1 of the Production Order from Production Control is posted to the WIP records (indicating the beginning of a new production order, job or run). This balance would reflect the budgeted amounts of direct materials, direct labour, and manufacturing overhead costs that the production control department is expecting to incur during production. All three of these accounts would be a credit entry with the balancing debit entry going to the Work in Process account. Copy 1 of the Material Requisition from the Inventory Control Department is also posted to the WIP records (adding direct material costs with a debit to WIP and credit to raw materials). The Cost Accounting department calculates the conversion costs (all costs incurred in the production process excluding direct materials--direct labour, manufacturing overhead, and indirect materials) and forwards this information to the general ledger via a journal voucher. Direct labour, manufacturing overhead, and indirect materials would be credited and the WIP account would be debited for the total amount. Completed production information is forwarded to the general ledger via a journal voucher and posted to the general ledger as cost of goods manufactured. The completed production cost report is submitted by the cost accounting department to management. Remember that the general ledger keeps the total or control account information. Individual detail or subsidiary information would be maintained by the appropriate department. When reviewing this flowchart make sure that you can track direct materials, labour and overhead as it is added to production (WIP). a. Identify all documents which are used in the Joshua Manufacturing Company and explain the purpose of each document. (10 marks)