Which of the following companies would be best served by a plantwide overhead rate?
A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are an equal mix of labor and mechanized work.
A company that manufactures few products and whose operations are labor intensive.
A company that manufactures many different products and whose operations are highly mechanized.
A company whose products use overhead resources in very different ways. A company whose products differ in batch size and complexity and consume different amounts of overhead resources.