Managerial Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 007802563X
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-563-1

Chapter 3 - Job-Order Costing - Questions - Page 113: 3-10

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Two reasons why overhead might be underapplied in a given year: Overhead can be under-applied for a number of reasons. The first one is that control over overhead spending may be poor. Second, if some of the overhead is fixed and actual amount of the allocation base for the period is less than estimated at the beginning of the period, then the overhead will be under-applied.

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