The usefulness of overhead allocations based on a plantwide overhead rate depends

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The usefulness of overhead allocations based on a plantwide overhead rate depends on two crucial assumptions: (1) the overhead cost is correlated with the allocation base; and (2) all products use overhead cost in dissimilar proportions.

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