Table 13-2 -Refer to Table 13-2. Consider a Simple Economy That Is

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Table 13-2

-Refer to Table 13-2. Consider a simple economy that is made up of only two sectors, households and firms, and that investment is autonomous. Further, disposable personal income = real GDP. Suppose that actual real GDP in this economy is $300 billion in a particular period. We would expect to see

• A) unintended reductions in inventory, planned investment will exceed actual investment.
• B) unintended reductions in inventory, planned investment will be less than actual investment.
• C) unintended increases in inventory, planned investment will exceed actual investment.
• D) unintended increases in inventory, planned investment will be less than actual investment.

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Definitions:

Single Plantwide Factory Overhead Rate

A single rate used to allocate factory overhead costs to products, calculated by dividing total overhead costs by a base, usually total direct labor hours or machine hours.

Direct Labor Hours

The total hours worked by employees that can be directly associated with the production of goods or services.

Single Plantwide Overhead Rate

A cost allocation method that applies the same overhead rate to all products, regardless of the department where they were produced or the amount of overhead they actually incurred.

Machine Hours

A metric used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to individual products based on the number of hours the machines are run to produce them.