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Factory overhead, also called manufacturing overhead, manufacturing overhead costs (MOH cost), work overhead, or factory burden in American English, is the total cost involved in operating all production facilities of a manufacturing business that cannot be traced directly to a product.^[1] It generally applies to indirect labor and indirect cost. Overhead also includes all costs involved in manufacturing with the exception of the cost of raw materials. Examples include supplies, indirect materials such as lubricants, indirect manufacturing labor such as plant maintenance and cleaning labor, plant rent, plant insurance, property taxes on the plant, plant depreciation, and the compensation of plant managers.

Items of the overhead

Manufacturing overhead includes other costs in manufacturing that are neither direct materials costs nor direct labor costs. It might also be referred as the factory burden or production overhead. Its value is essential for determining the cost of products to be manufactured.

This category of costs includes expenses like:

Electricity for the equipment and lighting.
Cleaning costs of equipment.
Material handling like forklifts
Maintenance of the equipment.
Wages of employees in the factory who for example work on record keeping and inspection of materials.
Computing the operation of the process of manufacturing the product.
Insurance
Safety and quality cost.
Plant Repairs

References

^ A dictionary of business and management (5th ed.). Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780199234899. OCLC 277068142.

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-'''Factory overhead''', also called '''manufacturing overhead''' or '''work overhead''' or American English '''factory burden''', is the total cost involved in operating all production facilities of a [[manufacturing]] business that cannot be traced directly to a product.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277068142|title=A dictionary of business and management.|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199234899|edition=5th|location=Oxford [England]|oclc=277068142}}</ref> It generally applies to indirect labor and indirect cost, it also includes all costs involved in manufacturing with the exception of the cost of raw materials.
+'''Factory overhead''', also called '''manufacturing overhead''', '''manufacturing overhead costs''' ('''MOH cost'''), '''work overhead''', or '''factory burden''' in [[American English]], is the total cost involved in operating all production facilities of a [[manufacturing]] business that cannot be traced directly to a [[Final good|product]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277068142|title=A dictionary of business and management.|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199234899|edition=5th|location=Oxford [England]|oclc=277068142}}</ref> It generally applies to indirect labor and [[Indirect costs|indirect cost]]. Overhead also includes all [[Manufacturing cost|costs]] involved in manufacturing with the exception of the cost of [[Raw material|raw materials]]. Examples include supplies, indirect materials such as lubricants, indirect manufacturing labor such as plant maintenance and cleaning labor, plant rent, plant insurance, [[property tax]]es on the plant, plant depreciation, and the compensation of plant managers.
+== Items of the overhead ==
+Manufacturing overhead includes other costs in manufacturing that are neither direct materials costs nor direct labor costs.  It might also be referred as the factory burden or production overhead. Its value is essential for determining the cost of products to be manufactured.
+This category of costs includes expenses like:
+# Electricity for the equipment and lighting.
+# Cleaning costs of equipment.
+# Material handling like forklifts
+# Maintenance of the equipment.
+# Wages of employees in the factory who for example work on record keeping and inspection of materials.
+# Computing the operation of the process of manufacturing the product.
+# Insurance
+# Safety and quality cost.
+# Plant Repairs
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* Cornerstones of Managerial Accounting 4th edition-Chapter 2: Depreciation on plant buildings and equipment, janitorial and maintenance labor, plant supervision, materials handling, power for plant utilities, and plant property taxes.
+* Management accounting by Eldon, Wiley, 1979 - Business & Economics
+* [http://www.wiley.com/college/weygandt- Managerial Accounting 4th Edition, Tools for Business Decision Making]
 [[Category:Management accounting]]