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 with
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Budget We are creating a Smartphone application for use as a travel aid for the public and the profit will be donated to the partnership for children charity. The total budget allocated for this project is £20‚000. We have £10‚000 from our own funds and we will be using this fund for the promotion of the app with £10‚000. The council has also provided us with £10‚000 subsidy. We have used our funds on Feasibility‚ User Requirement and Analysis‚ Design‚ Coding
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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. Commercially
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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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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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Part of Citicorp i-flex started as a division in CITICORP (now Citigroup)‚ wholly owned subsidiary called Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. (COSL) in 1991. Mr. Ravi Apte carved out a separate company Citicorp Information Technologies Industries Ltd. (CITIL) out of COSL and named Mr. Rajesh Hukku to head CITIL. While COSL’s mandate was to serve Citicorp’s internal needs globally and be a cost center‚ CITIL’s mandate was to be profitable by serving not only Citicorp but the whole global financial
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The Constitution of the United States should is a flexible and dynamic document‚ that changes as the country it was framed for grows. This argument is not founded by what’s written in the constitution‚ but what’s absent. The framers were some of the greatest minds of the time period‚ and fabricated the constitution to protect those freedoms that had been denied to them by their former governments. These men however chose not to address how they wanted their words to be interpreted over time. They
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Assignment: Fixed and Variable Costs‚ Break-Even Point Exercise 10.1 Recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP. What are the variable costs? What are the fixed costs? How many meals will the WHDM program need to provide during the fiscal year to reach the BEP? How much profit will the program earn if it completes its 45‚000-meal contract with the City of Westchester? The variable cost of service is $3.93 during the fiscal year the WHDM should provide 1‚011 meals to reach their
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much the advertising should cost - including how much should be invested to increase sales - and how that amount should be allocated is completely up to vodafone Advertising costs are a controllable expense. Advertising budgets are the means of determining and controlling this expense and dividing it wisely among departments‚ product lines or services. This fact sheet describes various methods of establishing an advertising budget‚ and suggests ways of applying budget amounts to get the desired
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for flexible manufacturing. Comment on the advantages and disadvantage of flexible manufacturing? Comment on the scope economies presented in the news article? What does the existence of such economies imply about the production of autos in growing fragmented market? “ In the news article‚ “Chrysler Gains Edge by Giving New Flexibility to Its Factories”‚ more emphasis is placed on how Detroit’s Big 3 and especially Chrysler is catching up with its Japanese rivals by adapting flexible manufacturing
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