1.
Harrelson Company manufactures pizza sauce through two production departments: Cooking
and Canning. In each process, materials and conversion costs are incurred evenly throughout the
process. For the month of April, the work in process accounts show the following debits.
Cooking
Canning
Journalize the April transactions. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when
amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)
Date
Account Titles and Explanation
Debit
Credit
(To record materials used.)
(To assign factory labor to production.)
(To assign overhead to production.)
(To record costs transferred in.)
Cooking Canning
Beginning work in process $0 $4,000
Materials 21,000 9,000
Labor 8,500 7,000
Overhead 31,500 25,800
Costs transferred in 53,000

2.
Solution
Work in Process-Cooking Debit 21000
Work in Process-Canning Debit 9000
Raw Materials Inventory Credit 30000
(To record materials used.)
Work in Process-Cooking Debit 8500
Work in Process-Canning Debit 7000
Factory Labor Credit 15500
(To assign factory labor to production.)
Work in Process-Cooking Debit 31500
Work in Process-Canning Debit 25800
Manufacturing Overhead Credit 57300
(To assign overhead to production.)
Work in Process-Canning Debit 53000
Work in Process-Cooking Credit 53000
(To record transfer of units to the Canning Department.)