Gateshead Industries manufactures a single product and started the year with no inventories. Selected information about results for

the period just ended include the following:

Actual fixed manufacturing overhead

Actual variable manufacturing overhead

Applied fixed manufacturing overhead

Applied variable manufacturing overhead

Budgeted fixed overhead

Variable overhead efficiency variance

$$224,400$

$306,000$

$214,000$

$314,000$

$207,400$

$6,500U$

Thirty percent of this period's production has not been sold. There are never any work$-$in$-$process inventories.

Required:

a$.$ Assume Gateshead writes off all variances to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the entries the company would make to record and close

out the variances.

b$.$ Assume Gateshead prorates all variances to the appropriate accounts. Prepare the entries the company would make to record and

close out the variances.

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Assume Gateshead writes off all variances to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the entries the company would make to record and close out

the variances.

Note: If no entry is required for a transaction$/$event$,$ select $"$No journal entry required" in the first account field.