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Concept Introduction:
Manufacturing
Manufacturing overheads can be defined as the overheads incurred during the manufacturing process of the product. Only the plant or factory related expenses are termed as manufacturing overheads.
Predetermined overhead rate:
Predetermined overhead rate can defined as the rate allocated on the bases of estimated overheads and a base that can used to determine per unit of allocation of overhead of the base.
Requirement 1
Predetermined overhead allocation rate
Requirement 2
To post:
Actual and allocated manufacturing overhead to the Manufacturing Overhead T-account.
Requirement 3
To prepare:
Requirement 4
To explain:
Why accountants don’t use the actual manufacturing overhead rate

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Horngren's Accounting (11th Edition)
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