Posting to the General Ledger for Payroll Entries Is Done

question 58

True/False

Posting to the general ledger for payroll entries is done only at the end of each calendar year.

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Definitions:

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A calculated estimate used for allocating overhead costs to products or services, based on an established measure such as labor hours or machine usage, facilitating budgeting and financial planning.

Activity-Based Costing

A strategy for attributing overhead and indirect expenditures to associated services and products, determined by the activities demanded by each.

Estimated Overhead Cost

An approximation of the indirect costs associated with production, used for budgeting and pricing purposes.

Activity Cost Pools

Activity Cost Pools are aggregations of all the costs associated with particular activities used in activity-based costing to allocate overhead costs more accurately.