3 Cost Accounting Ledger System
3 Cost Accounting Ledger System
3 Cost Accounting Ledger System
The Cambridge Company uses job order costing. At the beginning of December two jobs were in process:
Job 369 Job 372
Material Rs 20,000 Rs. 7,000
Direct labour 10,000 3,000
Applied factory overhead 15,000 4,500
There was no inventory of finished goods on December 1. During the month, Jobs 373, 374, 375, 376, 378 and
379 were started.
Material requisitions for December totaled Rs. 130,000, direct labour cost, Rs.100,000 and actual factory
overhead , Rs. 160,000. Factory overhead is applied at a rate of 150% of direct labour cost.
The only job still in process at the end of December is No. 379, with cost of Rs. 14,000 for material and total Rs.
9,000 for direct labour and applied overhead.
Job No. 376, the only finished job on hand at the end of December, has a total cost of Rs. 20,000.
Required:
(1) T-accounts for Work in Process, Finished Goods, Cost of Goods sold, Factory overhead Control and
Applied Factory Overhead. (4)
(2). General journal entries to record:
(a). Cost of goods manufactured (2)
(b). Cost of goods sold (2)
(c). Closing of over-or-under applied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. (2)
The Balances in the perpetual inventory accounts of Sonny Manufacturing Co. at the beginning and end of the
current year are as follows:
End of Year Beginning of year
Inventory accounts:
Materials Rs. 25,800 Rs. 22,000
Work in Process 8,000 5,000
Finished goods 24,000 38,000
The total amounts debited and credited during the year to the accounts used in recording manufacturing activities
are summarized below:
Account: Debit Entries Credit Entries
Materials Inventory Rs. 410,000 Rs. ?
Direct Labour 189,000 192,000
Manufacturing 393,600 393,600
Overhead
Work in Process ? ?
Inventory
Finished Goods ? ?
Inventory
INSTRUCTIONS
a. Using this data, state or compute for the year the amounts of: (10)
1. Direct materials purchased
2. Direct materials used
3. Payments of direct labour payrolls
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4. Direct labour cost assigned to production
5. The overhead application rate used during the year, assuming that overhead was applied as a percentage
of direct labour costs
6. Total manufacturing costs charged to the work in process inventory account during the year
7. The cost of finished goods manufactured
8. Cost of goods sold
b. Prepare a schedule of the cost of finished goods manufactured. (10)
The Constant Company had the following inventories of the beginning and end of January.
January 1 January 31
Material Rs.10000 Rs.38000
Work-in-process ? 110000
Finished goods 50000 150000
During January the cost of material purchased was Rs.138000 and the factory overhead of Rs. 90000 was applied
the rate of 50% of Direct Labour Cost. In January cost of goods sold was Rs.200000.
Required: Prepare ledger accounts showing the flow of the cost of goods manufactured and sold.