What if the company actually spent $95,000 on overhead costs? What causes a company to have overapplied or underapplied overhead? Is this a situation that would eventually need to be resolved? If so, how?

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Problem 4TP: If a company bases its predetermined overhead rate on 100,000 machine hours, and It actually has...
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What if the company actually spent $95,000 on overhead costs? What causes a company to have overapplied or underapplied overhead? Is this a situation that would eventually need to be resolved? If so, how? 

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