P17-36B Accounting for transactions, construction company Meadow Construction, Inc. is a home builder in Arizona. Meadow uses a job order costing system in which each house is a job. Because it constructs houses, the com- pany uses an account titled Construction Overhead. The company applies overhead based on estimated direct labor costs. For the year, it estimated construction over- head of $1,150,000 and total direct labor costs of $5,750,000. The following events occurred during August: a. Purchased materials on account, $450,000. b. Requisitioned direct materials and used direct labor in construction. Recorded the materials requisitioned. Direct Materials Direct Labor House 402 $ 52,000 $ 47,000 House 403 67,000 36,000 House 404 63,000 54,000 House 405 88,000 52,000 c. The company incurred total wages of $240,000. Use the data from Item b to assign the wages. Wages are not yet paid. d. Depreciation of construction equipment, $6,300. e. Other overhead costs incurred: Equipment rentals paid in cash, $40,000; Worker liability insurance expired, $5,000. f. Allocated overhead to jobs. g Houses completed: 402, 404. h. House sold on account: 404 for $250,000. Requirements 1. Calculate Meadow's predetermined overhead allocation rate for the year. 2. Prepare journal entries to record the events in the general journal. 3. Open T-accounts for Work-in-Process Inventory and Finished Goods Inventory Post the appropriate entries to these accounts, identifying each entry by letter. Determine the ending account balances, assuming that the beginning balances were zero I