businesses are transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost. Among such companies are Hewlett-Packard‚ General Electric‚ DuPont‚ Sun Microsystems‚ and British Airways. Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost. What are the pros and cons of management treating direct labor as a variable cost? Are there ethical issues to be considered here? Direct labor can be classified as a fixed cost or a variable cost‚ depending on how flexible the employer needs to be/can be
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Animals should not be used for research Imagine an animal suffering‚ with no way to help itself. Imagine a human being forcing an animal to suffer and not doing anything to help. This is what happens when animals are used for research to test products that most people do use. Every year almost 8‚000 animals suffer from being used for research. Animals are subjected to burns‚ electric shocks‚ and other painful experiences that researchers subject them too. Animals are given diseases from the researchers
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Variables 1 Corporate variables ADD1 -- Address Line 1 ADD2 -- Address Line 2 ADD3 -- Address Line 3 ADD4 -- Address Line 4 ADDZIP -- Postal Code BUSDESC -- S&P Business Description CITY -- City CONML -- Company Legal Name COUNTY -- County Code DLRSN -- Research Co Reason for Deletion EIN -- Employer Identification Number FAX -- Fax Number FYRC -- Current Fiscal Year End Month GGROUP -- GIC Groups GIND -- GIC Industries GSECTOR -- GIC Sectors GSUBIND -- GIC
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Activity-Based Costing to Allocate Overhead Costs The managers at Beneteau Company decided to use activity-based costing to allocate overhead in view of the point that its benefits would surpass the cost. With ABC‚ This costing use different cost groups which are organized according to different activities to allocate overhead costs. The production and maintenance of the product includes all activities such as purchasing materials‚ inventory management‚ assembling parts and verifying final products
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for familiarisation purposes only and must not be used in place of a ‘live’ assessment. When you feel prepared to sit the live assessment please contact your Training Provider who can schedule a live assessment for you. Guidance The unit being assessed by this report is Internal Controls and Accounting Systems. Assessment is by a formal business report‚ which can be reviewed by your assessor up to a maximum of five times. You should map your report to these units by page and paragraph
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Composition II Flavia Guberaj 24/01/2014 Should animals be used for different researches or testing products? In different places of the world a lot of researches and product’s tests proceed by using animals. And for decades the debate of “should animals be used for these experiments?” has been inevitable. F. Barbara Orlans‚ in her book called “In The Name Of Science: Issues In Responsible Animal Experimentation”‚ says that the biomedical researches and testing the product’s safety are the
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VARIABLE COSTINGMorenike Onibon Liberty University Abstract Determining the actual valuation of manufactured assets has always been a major problem in the accounting field. The real controversy exist in the decision regarding which costs are relevant to future periods‚ and thus should be included in assets valuation‚ and which should not be charged against net income. An understanding of the relationship between costs‚ volume‚ and profit‚ enables management to set more realistic objectives for
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rising cost of health care are aimed at reducing medical resource consumption rates. These approaches may be limited in effectiveness because of the relatively low variable cost of medical care. Variable costs (for medication and supplies) are saved if a facility does not provide a service while fixed costs (for salaried labor‚ buildings‚ and equipment) are not saved over the short term when a health care facility reduces service. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative variable and fixed costs of inpatient
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help from someone‚ but no one is there to point you in the right direction. Why? Because there are no soldiers‚ only drones. With technology advancing as quickly as it is‚ this is something we could be seeing in our future. The reasons drones should not be used in the military is lack of human qualities‚ violating the sovereignty of other countries‚ and letting people slowly forget the horrors and violence of war. (Drones) Since drones are robots and do not have the ability to tell people apart
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Should DDT Be Used In Africa?!? Some Say Yes Some Say No [pic] [pic] [pic] DDT is commonly used to combat malaria in sub Saharan African homes where malaria is a huge contributing factor in the obituaries. Killing mostly Children and the Elderly this disease has stopped many bright minds from ever existing. Malaria occurs because an engorged female mosquito lands on a victim and then begins to draw/suck the blood out of them. When they are carrying the disease in the
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