What Would Be an Appropriate Explanation for Classifying Clerical and Administrative

question 22

Multiple Choice

What would be an appropriate explanation for classifying clerical and administrative salaries as an indirect cost in the Wood Panel Plant example?

• A) those costs are directly associated with this particular training program
• B) those costs would have been incurred even if the program were cancelled by management
• C) this classification decision was the authors' choice
• D) clerical and administrative staff support many different departments, not just HR

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Definitions:

Monoecious

Having male and female reproductive parts in separate flowers or cones on the same plant; compare with dioecious.

Homosporous

Referring to plants that produce spores of one kind only, which are typically bisexual and can develop into a male or female gametophyte.

Eudicot Seeds

Eudicot Seeds belong to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, characterized by having two seed leaves, or cotyledons, upon germination, among other distinct structural features.

Nutritive Material

Substances that provide nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.