Which of the Following Is Most Likely to Decrease the Market

question 106

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most likely to decrease the market wage rate in a job category?

• A) The employer provides a generous pension plan.
• B) The work is widely viewed as safe and not stressful.
• C) The job is widely viewed as interesting and prestigious.
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Fixed Manufacturing Overhead

Costs that do not vary with the level of production, such as rent, salaries of permanent staff, and property taxes on a factory.

Variable Costing

A method of accounting that incorporates only the costs that vary with production into the cost of products, leaving out any fixed manufacturing overhead.

Absorption Costing

A fiscal recording method that consolidates every cost involved in manufacturing, which includes the price of direct materials, payments for direct labor, and total overhead costs, whether stable or fluctuating, into the cost allocated to a product.

Variable Costing

A costing method that incluonly direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead in product costs, excluding fixed manufacturing overhead.