The accompanying diagram reflects the costs of various jobs for the month of September. 

a. Which job has proportionately more overhead relative to direct labor? Why do you think this would occur?

b. As a manager, would you prefer to see these “visual results” or would you want to see the numbers for each job? Would you want to track the proportion of the product costs per job in different periods and by customer?

c. Discuss how you might use the information for managing jobs.

d. What other information related to these jobs would be important to you as a manager in order to develop analytics?

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12,000- 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 Job 1 Job 2 Job 3 Job 4 Dir Mater Dir Labor Overhead