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Overhead Absorption

Ryan Forrestal

Inventory Turns, Absorption, and the Overhead Your Plant Isn’t Charging

Manufacturing overhead absorption is how a plant assigns fixed overhead, such as rent, equipment depreciation, and supervision, to the units it makes. A predetermined rate, built on normal capacity, therefore spreads the fixed cost across expected output. But when actual output falls short, the unabsorbed overhead does not belong in inventory. Instead, it hits the […]

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