EXERCISE 3-17 (30 MINUTES)

3. The predetermined overhead rate is now considerably higher than it

was. This will penalize products that continue to use the same amount

of direct labor-hours. Such products will now appear to be less profitable

and the managers of these products will appear to be doing a poorer

job. There may be pressure to increase the prices of these products

even though there has in fact been no increase in their real costs.

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