Morewell,Inc.used a predetermined overhead allocation rate to allocate $80,000 and $50,000 of indirect costs to Coloring Department and Mixing Department,respectively.The journal entry to record the allocation of overhead costs to the Coloring Department is ________.

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The journal entry to record the allocation of overhead costs to the Coloring department would be to debit the Work-in-Process Inventory-Coloring for $80,000 and credit Manufacturing Overhead for $80,000. This is because the predetermined overhead allocation rate assigned $80,000 of indirect costs to the Coloring department, so that amount needs to be removed from the Manufacturing Overhead account and allocated to the Coloring department's Work-in-Process Inventory. Choice A and D are incorrect because they refer to the Mixing department, not the Coloring department. Choice C is incorrect because it only allocates $50,000 of indirect costs, not the full $80,000 that was assigned to the Coloring department.