A Nightclub Has Several Types of Employees and Each Has

question 81

Multiple Choice

A nightclub has several types of employees and each has a specialized task. Bartenders make drinks, bouncers check identification, bussers clear away used glasses, and so on. Bouncers can get their friends in for free, unlike the other employees. The club is a bureaucracy in many ways, but there is at least one significant element of bureaucratic organization missing. What is it?

• A) specialization
• B) hierarchy
• C) formal written communication
• D) impersonality

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Definitions:

Direct Materials Cost

The expense incurred for raw materials that are directly incorporated into a finished product.

T-Accounts

A simplified form of accounting ledger that uses a two-column format to show the increases and decreases in different financial accounts.

Job-Order Costing System

An accounting method that accumulates costs for individual units or small batches of production, often used for custom orders.

Direct Materials

Raw materials that are directly traceable to the production of a specific product.