Which of the following companies would be best served by a plantwide overhead rate?

A. A company whose products use overhead resources in very different ways.
B. A company whose products differ in batch size and complexity and consume different amounts of overhead resources.
C. A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are an equal mix of labor and mechanized work.
D. A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are highly mechanized.
E. A company that manufactures few products and whose operations are labor intensive.


Answer: E

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