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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variable The variable is the important aspects of the research. In research the concept are measure from variable. Variable are anythings that can take on differing or varing values. it mean that the value of variable vary from person to person‚ time to time or place to place but the meaning of variable are same to all. Thus variable are the charactestics of person‚ groups‚ objects‚ ideas‚ feeling or other thing that researcher want to measure. Variables are thus anything that can take on differing
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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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accommodation in hotels vary enormously. Furthermore‚ hotel revenue managers probably posses or more or less accurate intuition of what causes room rates to diverge. However‚ they do not know how Online Travel Agent sites select the leading hotels to be placed on their first search page. In this respect‚ some determinants are expected to be associated with hotel prices in a more or less linear way. To say it differently‚ price differences between hotels underscore the presence or not of some variables expected
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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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What are Segmentation Variables? To understand what segmentation variables in marketing are‚ it helps to first know what market segmentation is. Market segmentation is the analysis of population demographics so they can be categorized in specific ways. These specific ways of categorization in market segmentation are why segmentation variables are needed and used. Four (4) groups of Segmentation Variables – 1. Geographic segmentation is based on variables such as: • Region: this kind of
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main two reasons for the companies to implement variable pay plan are: motivating employees and reducing cost. In this paper we try to point out the challenges the organizations might face when they apply variable pay system by reviewing related literature. We find that it is difficult for the company to have a reliable measure for the variable pay system. In addition‚ the focus of the variable pay plan should be on motivating employees or cutting cost and how to strike a balance between these two
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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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Cornell Hospitality Quarterly http://cqx.sagepub.com/ Hotel Guests ’ Responses to Service Recovery: How Loyalty Influences Guest Behavior Pablo Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara‚ Miguel A. Suárez-Acosta and Teresa Aguiar-Quintana Cornell Hospitality Quarterly published online 28 November 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1938965513513348 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cqx.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/27/1938965513513348 A more recent version of this article was published on - Mar
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The following per unit data apply for sales to regular customers: Direct materials $455 Direct labor 300 Variable manufacturing support 45 Fixed manufacturing support 100 Total manufacturing costs 900 Markup (60%) 540 Targeted selling price $1440 Grant’s Kitchens has excess capacity. Ms. Wang wants the cabinets in cherry rather than oak‚ so direct material costs will increase by $30 per unit. 72. For Grant’s Kitchens‚ what is the minimum acceptable price of this one-time-only
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