The main purpose of job-order costing is to understand product costs by customer in order to charge customers the right price for the job to make a profit and manage costs. True False or in other If there is a debit balance in the manufacturing overhead account, this means that overhead has been words, overhead allocated to jobs is the amount of overhead cost actually incurred during a period. underapplied; greater than overapplied; greater than overapplied; less than underapplied; less than