Comment critically on the following two statements: (a) Activity-based costing is a means of more accurately accounting
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Comment critically on the following two statements:
(a) ‘Activity-based costing is a means of more accurately accounting for direct labour cost.’
(b) ‘Activity-based costing cannot really be applied to the service sector because the “activities” that it seeks to analyse tend to be related to manufacturing.’
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