1.   Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. 

2.   If any product is unprofitable with this cost assignment, drop this product from the mix.   

3.   Return to step 1.  Recalculate the overhead rate based on the remaining total direct labor hours in the plant, and apply the new overhead rate to the remaining products. 

4.   Continue to cycle through steps 1–3 until all the products have been dropped and the plant is no longer producing any products.  What is happening at Youngstown and why?

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