Over the past several decades, manufacturing companies have tended to move away from direct labor and more
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Over the past several decades, manufacturing companies have tended to move away from direct labor and more toward automation (i.e., using machinery rather than people to produce products).
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How might this shift to automation affect the allocation base used to allocate overhead to products?
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