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Why would a manufacturing company with multiple production departments still prefer to use a single plantwide overhead rate?

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Financial And Managerial Accounting

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Publisher: Cengage Learning,
ISBN: 9781337902663
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Financial And Managerial Accounting

15th Edition
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Publisher: Cengage Learning,
ISBN: 9781337902663

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