Winston Company Estimates That the Factory Overhead for the Following

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Essay

Winston Company estimates that the factory overhead for the following year will be $1,250,000. The company has decided that the basis for applying factory overhead should be machine hours, which is estimated to be 50,000 hours. The total machine hours for the year were 54,300. The actual factory overhead for the year was $1,348,800.​
a. Determine the total factory overhead amount applied.
b. Compute the over- or underapplied amount for the year.
c. Journalize the entry to transfer the over- or underapplied factory overhead to cost of goods sold.

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Definitions:

Equivalent Units

A metric used in cost accounting to express the amount of work done on incomplete units of production in terms of fully completed units.

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Weighted-Average Method

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Equivalent Units

A concept in cost accounting used to apportion costs to partially completed units of product, allowing for the calculation of per-unit costs in process costing environments.