What out for this old accountant parable....
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One day an evil accountant came along and said the little firm should adopt an accounting system that allocated shared overhead...
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So thanks to the evil accountant, the little firm went from making a tidy profit … to going out of business!
Moral of the story: Don’t allocate shared overhead, it can only lead to dopey decisions.