Because of competition, people in our society enjoy a government control of our economic system and businesses. b a narrower selection of goods or services. c fewer changes in existing goods or services. d a higher standard of living than that of people in many other countries.

Mandela manufacturing thinks that the best activity base for its manufacturing overhead is machine hours. the estimate of annual overhead costs is $540,000. the company used 1,000 hours of processing for job a15 during the period and incurred actual overhead costs of $580,000. the budgeted machine hours for the year totaled 20,000. what amount of manufacturing overhead should be applied to job a15? $29,000. $540. $580. $27,000.