Which of the Following Companies Would Be Best Served by a Plantwide

Multiple Choice

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

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