Russ Shafer-Landau Is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Russ Shafer-Landau is professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books including The Fundamentals of Ethics, fourth edition (2017) and The Ethical Life, fourth edition (2017). He is also the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics. In this reading he reviews some common criticisms of utilitarianism and argues that although some of them are less than decisive, others pose serious problems for the theory. Utilitarianism's most crippling shortcomings are its insistence that there is no intrinsic wrongness (or rightness) and its requirement that we must maximize well-being even if justice is thwarted.
-For Held, virtue ethics and the ethics of care are synonymous.

Understand the impact of cost allocations on customer service and order fulfillment strategies.

Understand the key differences between absorption costing and variable costing methods.

Identify which costs are treated as product costs under variable and absorption costing.

Recognize the effects of lean production on inventories and net operating income under different costing methods.

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