Khat Incorporated Makes a Single Product--A Cooling Coil Used in Commercial

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Essay

Khat Incorporated makes a single product--a cooling coil used in commercial refrigerators. The company has a standard cost system in which it applies overhead to this product based on the standard labor-hours allowed for the actual output of the period. Data concerning the most recent year appear below:
Required:
Determine whether overhead was underapplied or overapplied for the year and by how much.

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