Problem 6-15_ Fryer’s Choice_Work in process accounting

Fryer’s Choice produces a specially blended vegetable oil widely used in restaurant deep fryers. The blending process creates a cooking oil that can be heated to a high temperature, but does not smoke or smell. The oil is produced in two departments: Blending and Bottling. Raw materials are introduced at various points in the Blending Department.

     The following incomplete Work in Process T-account is available for the Blending Department for March:

Work in Process—Blending

  March 1 balance (20,000 litres;
    materials 100% complete; labour
    and overhead 90% complete)

$38,000  

Completed and transferred to
Bottling (   ?    litres)

$???  

  March costs added:

     Oils (390,000 litres)

495,000  

     Direct labour

72,000  

     Overhead

181,000  

  March 31 inventory (40,000 litres;
    materials 75% complete, labour and
    overhead 25% complete)

   $???  

The March 1 beginning inventory in the Blending Department consists of the following cost elements: raw materials, $25,000; direct labour, $4,000; and overhead, $9,000.

     Costs incurred during March in the Bottling Department were materials used, $115,000; direct labour, $18,000; and overhead cost applied to production, $42,000. The company uses the weighted-average method in its process costing.

1.

Prepare journal entries to record the cost incurred in both the Blending Department and the Bottling Department during March. Key your entries to the items (a) through (f) below:

 a.

Raw materials were issued for use in production

b.

Direct labour costs were incurred.

c.

Manufacturing overhead costs for the entire factory were incurred: $225,000. (Hint: Credit Accounts Payable.)

d.

Manufacturing overhead cost was applied to production using a predetermined overhead rate.

e.

Units that were complete with respect to processing in the Bottling Department were transferred to finished goods: $950,000.

f.

Completed units were sold on account: $1,500,000. The cost of goods sold was $890,000.

2. Post the journal entries from requirement 1 above to T-accounts. The following account balances existed at the beginning of March. (Note: The beginning balance in the Blending Department’s Work in Process account is given above.)

  Raw materials

$

681,000

  Work in Process—Bottling Department

$

65,000

  Finished Goods

$

20,000

After posting the entries to the T-accounts, find the ending balance in the inventory accounts and the manufacturing overhead accounts.

3.

Prepare a production report for the Blending Department for March. (Round "Cost per equivalent unit" answers to 2 decimal places.)