direct overhead

direct overhead definition - finance
Costs, such as warehouse rent, electricity costs, and insurance, that are directly related to the cost of a manufacturing activity. These costs are tabulated and become part of cost of goods sold.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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