On january 1, 2018, poplar fabricators corporation agreed to grant its employees two weeks’ vacation each year, with the stipulation that vacations earned each year can be taken the following year. for the year ended december 31, 2018, poplar fabricators’ employees each earned an average of $900 per week. seven hundred vacation weeks earned in 2018 were not taken during 2018. required: 1. prepare the appropriate adjusting entry for vacations earned but not taken in 2018. 2. suppose that, by the time vacations actually are taken in 2019, wage rates for employees have risen by an average of 5 percent from their 2018 level. also, assume wages earned in 2019 (including vacations earned and taken in 2019) were $31 million. prepare a journal entry that summarizes 2019 wages and the payment for 2018 vacations taken in 2019.

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.