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The generally accepted accounting matching principle requires manufacturing and service businesses to include direct and overhead expenses in product and service costs and, when appropriate, in ...

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There are a variety of ways to think about business costs. Marginal costing income statements are more useful for analyzing inventory and production costs, while absorption costing is required under ...