Turn fixed costs into variable costs When you outsource you only pay for the products that you use. Instead of have fixed cost of stuff that aren’t being used to produce anything but still require you to produce them in order to be ready for your production process. Example when Ford own a steel mil it had the fix cost of the steel mil now that they don’t produce steel the they have the variable cost of buy steel when they need it. Need a little more about what are fixed vs. variable costs E
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BP Crises Law/531 October 1‚ 2012 The Deepwater Horizon disaster attributed to BP‚ a multinational oil and gas company‚ occurred in 2010 dumping massive amounts of oil in the waters on the gulf coast. The BP is headquartered in London with operations in 80 countries with the largest being in the United States. Team B participated in a simulation that presented a similar scenario as the oil spill mentioned. The company in the
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9/22/10 BP and Ethics This case is about the safety problems faced by BP‚ the third-largest oil and gas producer in the world. On March 23‚ 2005‚ an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery resulted in one of the most serious workplace accidents in the US. An investigation by The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) uncovered many safety lapses at the Texas City refinery. BP was accused of endangering its workers by compromising on process safety due to its high emphasis on cost cutting
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The average variable cost (AVC) in the short run and long run is ‘U’ shaped. Average variable cost is the total variable cost per unit of output‚ found by dividing total variable cost by the quantity of output. Thus if a firm produces X2 units of a commodity at a total variable cost of TVx2 the AVC of producing these two units of output is given as Average variable cost decreases with additional production at relatively small quantities of output and then eventually increases with relatively
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Of Mexico 2010 Biggest Oil Spill in History Jennifer Fuenzalida Jorge Luis Torres Ignacio Muñoz Santiago Duque AGENDA Brief Facts About the Biggest Oil Spill in History BP’ s Communication Strategy Result of BP’s Communication Strategy How Should this Crisis Have Been Managed? Timeline BP History of Disasters 1908 UK: British Petroleum‚ is an energy company‚ dedicated to the production of oil and natural gas. April 6 Texas City: Explosion in Texas City & a spill of 244 tons of chemical
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Environmental Ethics Issue on Oil Spills Environmental Ethics Issue on Oil Spills The environmental ethics issue that I chose to examine in this paper is the petroleum industry and its long history of oil spills which damage the ocean’s ecology‚ runes beaches‚ kills animals‚ and threatens the fishing and shrimping industries. Even though the United States and many other countries depend on the oil carried by ships or drilled for on off shore drilling rigs‚ the damage done by this industry
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The Threat of New Entrants (Low) There is a great amount of economies of learning and scale in the oil industry for Example BP has been searching for oil since 1901. They invest a huge amount in up-to-date technologies making it difficult for new entrants to compete. His obviously requires huge capital investments in R&D as well as start-up cost‚ for example a truck just to carry the oil costs over $1‚000‚000. There is a lot of regulation in the industry especially with regards to inter-continental
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Running head: VARIABLE COSTS Variable Costs ACC/561 June 12‚ 2012 Variable Costs Any cost which is not fixed and will change in same amount when there is change in production volume is accounted as variable costs. This also means that they change in total rather than per unit whenever there is production or activity change. In production- labor‚ material or overhead could be the variable costs involved in the business. In Fitness center‚ there are different variable costs involved and each
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challenges associated with managing in a business with high fixed costs like airlines? To understand the challenges firms face with regard to high fixed costs we must first have a basic understanding. A fixed cost is a routine cost the company incurs despite production‚ and changes in volume. It is a cost that must be paid routinely‚ but the amount of the expense may vary. Firms with high fixed costs must have complete understanding of what fixed costs exist that will be incurred‚ and how much revenue they
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1. The aspects of BP’s ethical culture that could have contributed to the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster include: * The company tried to assure concerned stakeholders that it took environmental concerns seriously‚ but BP’s actions have not always concided with its words. BP has engaged in numerous instances of questionable behavior including fraud‚ environmental‚ and ethical transgressions clearly demonstrate that the company has a history of disregarding the well-being of stakeholders. The
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