Elite Home Decor manufactures customized household furnishings. The company uses a perpetual inventory system and has a highly labor-intensive production process, so it assigns manufacturing overhead based on direct labor cost. Elite expects to incur $2,205,000 of manufacturing overhead costs and estimated direct labor costs of $3,150,000 during 2020. At the end of December 2019, Elite reported work in process inventory (Job 551) of $93,000 The following events occurred during January - March 2020. i) Purchased materials on account, $392,000 ii) Incurred manufacturing wages of $400,000 iii) Requisitioned direct materials and used direct labor in manufacturing   Direct Materials Direct Labor Job 551 $70,200 $61,200 Job 552 97,500 115,600 Job 553 105,300 78,200 Job 554 117,000 85,000

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Elite Home Decor manufactures customized household furnishings. The company uses a perpetual inventory system and has a highly labor-intensive production process, so it assigns manufacturing overhead based on direct labor cost. Elite expects to incur $2,205,000 of manufacturing overhead costs and estimated direct labor costs of $3,150,000 during 2020.

At the end of December 2019, Elite reported work in process inventory (Job 551) of $93,000

The following events occurred during January - March 2020.

i) Purchased materials on account, $392,000

ii) Incurred manufacturing wages of $400,000

iii) Requisitioned direct materials and used direct labor in manufacturing

 

Direct Materials

Direct Labor

Job 551

$70,200

$61,200

Job 552

97,500

115,600

Job 553

105,300

78,200

Job 554

117,000

85,000

v) Issued indirect materials to production, $30,000

v) Charged indirect manufacturing wages to production, $60,000

vi) Depreciation of production machinery, $85,000

vii) Other manufacturing overhead costs incurred on units 551 to 554 amounted to $49,000

viii)Allocated overheads to jobs at the predetermined rate

ix) Units completed: 551, 552 & 554

x) Sold units 551 & 554 (billed customers at a margin of 33⅓% on sales)

Required:

(a) Post the appropriate entries to Work in Process Inventory account & determine the account balance on March 31, the end of the quarter.

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