Centralizing Pushes Decision Making Down to Lower Levels and Can

question 16

True/False

Centralizing pushes decision making down to lower levels and can occur separately or be combined with delayering.

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Definitions:

Departmental Overhead Rate

The rate used to allocate overhead costs to individual departments based on certain criteria or activities.

Cost Assignment

The process of identifying, aggregating, and assigning costs to cost objects, such as products, services, or departments.

Plantwide Overhead Rate

A single overhead rate calculated by dividing total factory overhead by the total amount of a chosen allocation base, applied uniformly across all production.

Activity-based Costing (ABC)

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to related products and services based on their usage.