In Chapter 3, you were introduced to three types of costs associated with a manufactured product – direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. Explain how these costs are associated with the manufactured product. Why are some of these costs allocated to the product through costing methods such as job order costing or process costing? As part of your response, please read the article First Solar preview: Manufacturing costs,and provide a specific example of this company’s manufacturing costs. Your initial post should be 200-250 words. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
For this paper select an article from a college level Humanities research magazine. These are usually called journals such as the Journal of Modern Art and you can find many in the college library’s on-line reference collection. Some are in more general circulation such as Smithsonian.Review the article and then identify the main points developed by the author in it. Also explain what particular strengths you found or what points of interest in it arose for you, as you read it. Your review should be 500 words in length. Cite the article MLA style at the end of your entry. Be sure to pick an article that deals with one of the genres of the humanities. Remember that the genres of the humanities are things like painting,music ,sculpture, photography ,computer graphic arts ,theater,dance, architecture ,religion, archaeology , weaving, pottery,literature,poetry and so on.
