A Company Estimates Total Overhead Costs for the Next Year

question 179

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A company estimates total overhead costs for the next year to be $1,500,000 and wishes to use direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base.This company makes two products: (1) Fancy X ,which requires three direct labor hours per unit,and (2)Plain X,which requires one direct labor hour per unit.If the company plans to make 20,000 units of Fancy X and 20,000 units of Plain X,then each unit produced will be allocated the same amount of overhead.

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