Hardy Company Manufactures a Single Product by a Continuous Process

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Essay

Hardy Company manufactures a single product by a continuous process, involving two production departments. The records indicate that $120,000 of direct materials were issued to and $200,000 of direct labor was incurred by Department 1 in the manufacture of the product. The factory overhead rate is $20 per machine hour; machine hours were 5,000 in Department 1. Work in process in the department at the beginning of the period totaled $35,000; and work in process at the end of the period was $25,000.
Instructions
Prepare entries to record
(a) The flow of costs into Department 1 for
(1) direct materials
(2) direct labor
(3) overhead
(b) The transfer of production costs to Department 2.

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