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A)Please distinguish between

1. direct labor and indirect labor.
2. (a) factory overhead and (b) selling and administrative overhead.
3. direct material and indirect material.

B) Why must a company estimate the amount of factory overhead assigned to individual jobs or job lots?

C) The chapter used a percent of labor cost to assign factory overhead to jobs. Please identify another factor (or base) a company might reasonably use to assign overhead costs.