The Greenbriar Plant Has Two Categories of Overhead: Maintenance and Inspection

question 52

Essay

The Greenbriar plant has two categories of overhead: maintenance and inspection. Costs expected for these categories for the coming year are as follows:
The plant currently applies overhead using direct labour hours and expected capacity of 20,000 direct labour hours. The data provided below has been assembled for use in developing a bid for a proposed job. Bid prices are calculated as full manufacturing cost plus 40 percent markup.
Total expected machine hours for all jobs during the year are 10,000, and the total expected number of inspections is 1,500.
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