Homework Help: buisness

Posted by Keith on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 5:42pm.

Throughout the corporate world, 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?

buisness - SraJMcGin, Friday, November 19, 2010 at 12:12am
1. Try some of these links:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=is+direct+labor+a+fixed+or+variable+cost

2. try here:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=pros+%26+cons+of+management+treating+direct+labor+as+a+variable+cost

Sra

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