XYZ Company applies overhead to jobs using direct lab or cost as an activity. For the month of September, XYZ Company estimated it would use $13,600 of direct labo r and incur $17,000 of manufacturing overhead cost. The actual results reported by XYZ Company for September included $12,000 of direct labor and $11,500 in manufacturing overhead cost. For September, overhead was: O underapplied by $5,500 O underapplied by $3,500 O underapplied by $1,900 O overapplied by $5,500 O overapplied by $3,500
XYZ Company applies overhead to jobs using direct lab or cost as an activity. For the month of September, XYZ Company estimated it would use $13,600 of direct labo r and incur $17,000 of manufacturing overhead cost. The actual results reported by XYZ Company for September included $12,000 of direct labor and $11,500 in manufacturing overhead cost. For September, overhead was: O underapplied by $5,500 O underapplied by $3,500 O underapplied by $1,900 O overapplied by $5,500 O overapplied by $3,500
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Transcribed Image Text:XYZ Company applies overhead to jobs using direct lab
or
cost as an activity. For the month of September, XYZ
Company estimated it would use $13,600 of direct labo
r
and incur $17,000 of manufacturing overhead cost. The
actual results reported by XYZ Company for September
included $12,000 of direct labor and $11,500 in
manufacturing overhead cost. For September, overhead
was:
O underapplied by $5,500
O underapplied by $3,500
O underapplied by $1,900
O overapplied by $5,500
O overapplied by $3,500
O overapplied by $1,900
O none of the above choices are correct
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