To illustrate, assume that HM Company manufactures customized office tables and
uses an actual cost system. No perpetual inventory records are maintained.
Inventory balances for the month showed:
April 1 April 30
Raw Materials P 68,700 P 67,100
Work in Process 32,450 95,213
Finished Goods 52,610 49,880
Factory Supplies 3,200 5,600
During the month of April, selected transactions took place as follows:
TRANSACTIONS JOURNAL ENTRIES – ACTUAL COST
SYSTEM
a. Raw materials costing P56,250 Purchases 56,250 62,950
and factory supplies worth Factory Supplies 6,700
P6,700 were purchased on Expense
account. Vouchers
Payable
b. Unsatisfactory materials Vouchers 2,500 2,500
costing P2,500 were returned Payable
to Purchase
suppliers. Returns & Allow
c. Materials and supplies were No journal entry
issued to production as follows:
Direct materials – P55,350;
Supplies – P4,300
d. Factory payroll revealed: Direct Labor 50,500 4,640
Direct labor – P50,500; Indirect Indirect Labor 16,8002 1,856
labor – P16,800; Superintendence 5,500 928
Superintendence – Withholding tax 464
P25,500. Deductions (based on payable 84,912
gross payroll) are: SSS – 2%; SSS Payable
Philhealth – 1%; Pag-IBIG – Philhealth
0.5%; Withholding tax – 5% Payable
Pag-IBIG Payable
Vouchers Payable
e. Monthly paid employees Sales Salaries 20,400 1,820
received salaries as follows: Office Salaries 16,000 728
Sales Salaries – P20,400; Office Withholding tax 364
Salaries – P16,000. Deductions payable 182
(based on gross payroll) are: SSS SSS Payable 33,306
– 2%; Philhealth – 1%; Pag-IBIG – Philhealth
0.5%; Withholding tax – 5% Payable
Pag-IBIG Payable
Vouchers Payable