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Recording
In cost accounting, various production stages of manufacturing a product are identified. Thus, manufacturing costs are recorded at such production processes to reflect appropriate apportionment of costs.
Analyzing Manufacturing Overhead:
The manufacturing overhead costs are incurred in a factory and related to production process. It is attributed to the goods produced at such predetermined rate which is budgeted at beginning of the period. Therefore, we can analyze such predetermined budgets and actual level of activity to calculate under, over or optimum utilization of the resources.
To calculate:
The gross profit the company would report during the month of January 2016, before any adjustment is made for the overhead balance.
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