Use of a Plantwide Factory Overhead Rate Distorts Product Costs

question 62

True/False

Use of a plantwide factory overhead rate distorts product costs when there are differences in the factory overhead rates across different production departments and when products require different ratios of allocation-base usage in each production department.

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