Companies Use Three Common Approaches to Assign Overhead Costs to Products-Plantwide

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Companies use three common approaches to assign overhead costs to products-plantwide overhead rate, departmental overhead rates, and activity-based costing.The most accurate of these three approaches is the plantwide overhead rate.

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