At the end of the accounting period after adjusting journal entries have been made, the Manufacturing Overhead Control account balance is generally

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The balance in the Manufacturing Overhead Control account should be zero at the end of the accounting period after adjusting journal entries have been made. This is because any overapplied or underapplied overhead would have been allocated to cost of goods sold or allocated to work in process and finished goods through adjusting entries, thereby reducing the balance to zero.

At the End of the Accounting Period After Adjusting Journal