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Press is wholly owned by the university. It performs the bulk of its work for other university departments, which pay as though the press were an outside business enterprise. The press also publishes and maintains a stock of books for general sale. The press uses normal costing to cost each job. Its job-costing system has two direct-cost categories (direct materials and direct manufacturing labor) and one indirect-cost pool (manufacturing overhead, allocated on the basis of direct manufacturing labor costs). The following data (in thousands) pertain to 2017:

Direct materials and supplies purchased on credit $840

Direct materials used 740

Indirect materials issued to various production departments 140

Direct manufacturing labor 1,350

Indirect manufacturing labor incurred by various production departments 950

Depreciation on building and manufacturing equipment 440

Miscellaneous manufacturing overhead* incurred by various production departments

(ordinarily would be detailed as repairs, photocopying, utilities, etc.) 540

Manufacturing overhead allocated at 170% of direct manufacturing labor costs ?

Cost of goods manufactured 4,130

Revenues 8,900

Cost of goods sold (before adjustment for under- or overallocated manufacturing overhead) 4,050

Inventories, December 31, 2016 (not 2017):

Materials Control 160

Work-in-Process Control 60

Finished Goods Control 530

*The term manufacturing overhead is not used uniformly. Other terms that are often encountered in printing companies include job overhead and shop overhead.

1.	Identify the components of the overview diagram of the job-costing system at the University of Boston Press.
2.	Prepare journal entries to summarize the 2017 transactions. As your finalentry, dispose of the year-end under- or overallocated manufacturing overhead as a write-off to Cost of Goods Sold. Number your entries. Explanations for each entry may be omitted.
3.	Show posted T-accounts for all inventories, Cost of Goods Sold, Manufacturing Overhead Control, and Manufacturing Overhead Allocated.
4.	How did the University of Boston Press perform in 2017?