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Question

Vista Landscaping provides garden design and installation services for its clients. The company uses a job-order costing system to track the costs of its landscaping projects. The table below provides data concerning the three landscaping projects that were in progress during April. There was no work in process at the beginning of April.

Project
Harris Chan James
Designer-hours 199 81 120
Direct materials $4,800 $1,700 $3,700
Direct labor $2,400 $1,100 $1,600

Actual overhead costs were $15,600 for April. Overhead costs are applied to projects on the basis of designer-hours because most of the overhead is related to the costs of the garden design studio. The predetermined overhead rate is $46 per designer-hour. The Harris and Chan projects were completed in April; the James project was not completed by the end of the month.

Requirement 1:
Compute the amount of overhead cost that would have been charged to each project during April. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Harris Chan James
Overhead applied $ $ $

Requirement 2:
Determine the cost of goods manufactured for April. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Cost of goods $

Requirement 3:
What is the accumulated cost of the work in process at the end of April? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Accumulated cost of the work $

Requirement 4:
Determine the underapplied or overapplied overhead for April. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

overhead $

Explanation / Answer

Requirement 1:

Compute the amount of overhead cost that would have been charged to each project during April. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Harris Chan James Overhead applied $ 9,154 $ 3,634 $ 5,474

Feedback: Harris Chan James Designer-hours 199 79 119

Predetermined overhead rate $46 $46 $46

Manufacturing overhead applied $ 9,154 $ 3,634 $ 5,474

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Requirement 2: Prepare a journal entry showing the completion of the Harris and Chan projects and the transfer of costs to the Completed Projects (i.e., Finished Goods) account. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) General Journal Debit Credit Completed projects 22,688 Work in process 22,688 Feedback:

Harris Chan Direct materials $ 4,700 $ 1,800

Direct labor 2,400 1,000

Overhead applied 9,154 3,634

Total cost $ 16,254 $ 6,434

Requirement 2: Prepare a journal entry showing the completion of the Harris and Chan projects and the transfer of costs to the Completed Projects (i.e., Finished Goods) account. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) General Journal Debit Credit

Completed projects 22,688

Work in process 22,688 Feedback:

Harris Chan Direct materials $ 4,700 $ 1,800

Direct labor 2,400 1,000

Overhead applied 9,154 3,634

Total cost $ 16,254 $ 6,434

General Journal Debit Credit Completed Projects 22,688*

Work in Process 22,688

* *$16,254 + $6,434 = $22,688

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Requirement 3: What is the balance in the Work in Process account at the end of the month? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) Total cost in work in process $ 10,774 Feedback:

The balance in the Work in Process account consists entirely of the costs associated with the Nguyen project:

Direct materials $ 3,700

Direct labor 1,600

Overhead applied 5,474

Total cost in work in process $ 10,774

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Requirement 4: What is the balance in the Overhead account at the end of the month? What is this balance called? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Balance in Overhead account $ 2,562

The balance in the Overhead account is determined as follows:

Manufacturing Overhead Actual overhead costs 15,700 18,262

Applied overhead costs 2,562

Overapplied overhead As indicated above, the credit balance in the Overhead account is called overapplied overhead