Maria's Custom Tailoring Is Very Labour Intensive

question 33

Multiple Choice

Maria's Custom Tailoring is very labour intensive.Therefore,Maria has decided to use direct labour hours as the cost driver for assigning service overhead costs to specific jobs.During the month of February,the company incurred overhead costs of $6000.Some 600 direct labour hours were expected to be used during the month.Total actual direct labour hours during the month totalled 800.What is the predetermined overhead rate per month,if based on direct labour hours?

• A) $ 10.00
• B) $ 7.50
• C) $ 0.75
• D) $ 0.101

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Definitions:

Reducing Sugar

Any sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group.

α-D-Fructofuranose

An isomer of fructose where the furanose ring form predominates, characterized by its specific configuration at the anomeric carbon.

Methyl Glycoside

Glycosides formed by the reaction of a sugar with methanol, characterized by a methoxy group replacing the glycosidic hydroxyl group of the sugar.

Mutarotation

The change in optical rotation due to the change in equilibrium between two anomers of a sugar solution over time.