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Introduction to Activity Based Costing (ABC)

A simple onlide slide presentation covering the basic concepts of ABC with a simple example.

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Subject(s): Accounting

Source(s): University of Pittsburgh

Author(s): Narcyz Roztocki

Posted: 2003-01-21

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