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ISBN: 9781305087408

Author: Edward J. Vanderbeck, Maria R. Mitchell

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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In cost accounting, overhead refers to those expenses which occur during the operating of a business. Overhead includes the fixed, variable, or semi-variable which is not directly involved with a company product or service. It is very important to analyz…

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Chapter 7, Problem 25Q

When allocating service department costs to production departments, why is the standard cost that the service department was expected to incur, rather than the actual cost that was incurred, used in the allocation?

Definition Definition System of assigning an estimated cost to the product (instead of the actual cost) so that the product cost can be determined well in advance and the pricing of the product can be done on time. Since the actual cost cannot be predicted at the initial stage of the production process, the estimated cost is recorded in the books. Any deviation of the estimated cost of the actual cost is adjusted in the books at the end of the period.

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