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Overhead costs always present problems for managers because most of them are indirect costs. Not only that, several of these costs are fixed. So the question is how to evaluate overhead costs especially when activity may vary while the costs may remain the same.

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Overhead costs must be evaluated as a total and should not be spread over all the units produced. Cost per unit ...

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