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... Allocate maintenance support expenditures to line activities, 3. Gather and classify enterprise programs and expenditures, 4.
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... Each agency differs with respect to overall agency structure and scope, organizes its maintenance program differently, has different numbers and definitions of maintenance activities, and differs in its treatment and classification of different expenditure types based on these characteristics as well as its information systems environment. As a result, comparing full costs, full unit costs, program support multipliers, enterprise support multipliers, and/or overhead rates of the calculations documented here, or undertaken externally, is both meaningless and futile.
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