Wilmington Pharmacy, part of a large chain of pharmacies, fills a variety of prescriptions for customers. The complexity of prescriptions filled by Wilmington varies widely; pharmacists

can spend between five minutes and six hours on a prescription order. Traditionally, the pharmacy has allocated its overhead based on the number of prescriptions. The

pharmacy chain's controller is exploring whether activity$-$based costing $($ABC$)$ may better allocate the pharmacy overhead costs to pharmacy orders.

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