For a manufacturing business paying contract labour for tasks like filling raw materials into bags, these costs should be treated as direct labour. The appropriate accounting head for these expenses is Wages Account. The journal entry would involve debiting the Wages Account.
16 April 2021
we are a manufacturing concern and we are taking the labour on contract for filling the raw materials into the bags.we are making the payment directly to the contractor..under which head these expenses will be show and what will be journal entry for it.