As Plant Controller, You Are Trying to Determine the Costs

question 3

Multiple Choice

As plant controller, you are trying to determine the costs over which you have the most control on a day-to-day basis.Your goal is to achieve better profitability.The plant operations manager suggests that overhead is the easiest area to directly reduce costs.Which of the following items would be classified as manufacturing overhead?

• A)factory janitor
• B)general corporate liability insurance
• C)cost of landscaping the corporate office
• D)the western division's vice president's salary

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Definitions:

Private Duty Nurses

Nurses who are hired directly by patients or their families to provide individualized care usually at the patient's home.

Embedded

Placed or fixed deeply and firmly within a surrounding mass.

Matrix

(1) In cell biology, the interior of the compartment enclosed by the inner mitochondrial membrane. (2) In zoology, nonliving material secreted by and surrounding connective tissue cells; contains a network of microscopic fibers.

Fibers

Stringy structures in plants that give strength and support; also refers to dietary material containing substances such as cellulose.