Calculate the balance in ending work in process

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Allocation and proration of overhead. Tamden, Inc., prints custom marketing materials. The business was started January 1, 2010. The company uses a normal-costing system. It has two direct cost pools, materials and labor and one indirect cost pool, overhead. Overhead is charged to printing jobs on the basis of direct labor cost. The following information is available for 2010

Budgeted direct labor costs $150,000
Budgeted overhead costs $180,000
Cost of actual material used $126,500
Actual direct labor costs $148,750
Actual overhead costs $176,000

Tamden, Inc., has no finished goods inventories because all printing jobs are transferred to cost of goods sold when completed.

1. Compute the overhead allocation rate.

2. Calculate the balance in ending work in process and cost of goods sold before any adjustments for under- or overallocated overhead.

3. Calculate under- or overallocated overhead.

4. Calculate the ending balances in work in process and cost of goods sold if the under- or overallocated overhead amount is as follows:


Direct materials Direct labor
Job 11 $3,620 $4,500
Job 12 $6,830 $7,250

a. Written off to cost of goods sold

b. Prorated using the ending balance (before proration) in cost of goods sold and work-in-process control accounts

5. Which of the methods in requirement 4 would you choose? Explain. 

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