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If your small business is a manufacturing company, you have the choice of using absorption costing or variable costing in determining your profits. You must learn the implications of each before ...

Two methods are commonly employed to value inventory -- variable costing and absorption costing. The difference between the two is in their treatment of operational overhead. Variable costing only ...