Gold Nest Company of Guandong, China, makes birdcages for the South China market. The company sells its birdcages through an extensive network of street vendors who receive commissions on their sales. The company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead to jobs based on direct labor cost. Its predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $330,000 of manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of $200,000 direct labor dollars. The beginning inventory balances were as follows: Raw materials Work in process Finished goods During the year, the following transactions occured: a. Raw materials purchased on account, $275,000. b. Raw materials used in production, $280,000 (materials costing $220,000 were charged directly to jobs; the remaining materials were indirect). c. Cash paid to employees: Direct labor Indirect labor Sales commissions Administrative salaries d. Rent for the year, $18,000 ($13,000 related to factory operations, and the remainder related to selling and administrative activities). e. Utility costs incurred in the factory, $57,000. $25,000 $10,000 $40,000 $180,000 $72,000 $63,000 $90,000 f. Advertising costs incurred, $140,000. g. Depreciation on equipment, $100,000 ($88,000 related to equipment used in factory operations; the remaining $12,000 related to equipment used in selling and administrative activities). h. Manufacturing overhead cost applied to jobs, $?. i. Completed goods costing $675,000 to manufacture. j. Sales for the year (all paid in cash) totaled $1,250,000. The manufacturing cost of these goods was $700,000. Required: 1. Prepare journal entries to record the transactions for the year. 2. Prepare T-accounts for each inventory account, Manufacturing Overhead, and Cost of Goods Sold. Post relevant data from your journal entries to these T-accounts (don't forget to enter the beginning balances in your inventory accounts). Compute an ending balance in each account. 3. Is Manufacturing Overhead underapplied or overapplied? Prepare a journal entry to close Manufacturing Overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. 4. Prepare an income statement. (Do not prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured; all of the information needed for the income statement is available in the journal entries and T-accounts you have prepared.)