You are a director in the andrews corporation. your boss called you to inform you that there is a proposed layoff in your department which would affect three of six of your employees if it takes place. given the sensitivity of the issue, your boss asks you to keep this information absolutely confidential. later that day, one of your employees (shelia) who would be affected stops you in the hallway and says she’s heard rumors about a layoff, remarking "i’m not going to be fired am i? " the layoff in fact does occur and you now have to deliver the bad news to your employees. it’s likely to send shockwaves through the organization and there will no doubt be considerable bad press associated with the layoff. with which of the following issues should you be most concerned when talking with shelia? making certain that she has a chance to air any negative feelings so she doesn’t feel a need to go the local newspaper.
making sure that shelia understands the economic need for laying-off staff.
clearly communicating that it’s not personal and that she has been a valuable employee.
ensuring that shelia understands the process for how she was selected as one of the employees to be terminated.

Miller company’s total sales are $171,000. the company’s direct labor cost is $20,520, which represents 30% of its total conversion cost and 40% of its total prime cost. its total selling and administrative expense is $25,650 and its only variable selling and administrative expense is a sales commission of 5% of sales. the company maintains no beginning or ending inventories and its manufacturing overhead costs are entirely fixed costs. required: 1. what is the total manufacturing overhead cost? 2. what is the total direct materials cost? 3. what is the total manufacturing cost? 4. what is the total variable selling and administrative cost? 5. what is the total variable cost? 6. what is the total fixed cost? 7. what is the total contribution margin?

In order to stay on track for long term financial goals, money for emergency spending should be taken first from your savings account. discretionary money. fixed expense money. net income.

Will give brainliest and 100 to best and correct project: benefit analysis study: small business expansion you are the owner of a small business that offers advertising services for your local homebuilding professionals. originally you were the only employee, working at your desktop at home. now your business is growing and you need to add more workers. the first assessment of your current situation: one worker, one desktop computer, one modem, one printer/scanner, one phone line (dsl). you also created a draft situation of what technology you will need if you add two more workers (three workers including yourself): three computers, one router, one printer/scanner, one phone line (wireless). do a one-page benefit analysis study that: compares the cost of adding two desktops vs. one or two laptops compares the cost of replacing the modem with a router/modem. compares the cost of building a wan vs. a lan or a vpn summarizes the total cost of maintaining your home office as the only computing space for your three-worker company. compare this cost with the option of building a network that includes your home office and two satellite locations. here are some questions you may want to consider: do i need a firewall to protect my company's data? are my two new workers' job responsibilities primarily mobile? are they going to be doing enough work in the field to justify owning laptops? what software needs to be installed in their computers for network connections (desktop vs. laptop)?! i will give 100 points and ! !