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Overhead
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Overhead
The expenses of a business that are not attributable directly to the production or sale of goods.

Overhead
Costs that result from having and maintaining a business. Rent is a primary (and expensive) example of direct overhead, as are office supplies and raw material from which to make products.

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Traditional cost systems focused on these cost elements, used direct labor as overhead cost allocation component, that is why they were able to quantify production costs exactly.
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