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ISBN: 9780133428704

Author: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan

Publisher: PEARSON

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In cost accounting, overhead refers to those expenses which occur during the operating of a business. Overhead includes the fixed, variable, or semi-variable which is not directly involved with a company product or service. It is very important to analyz…

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