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Dictionary definition: absorption costing
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- A Dictionary of Accounting
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absorption costing
The cost accounting system in which the
overheads
of an organization are charged to the production by means of the process of
absorption
. Costs are first apportioned to
cost centres
, where they are absorbed using
absorption rates
. Compare
marginal costing
.