Verizon Communications Inc. and Health Service Managers

The companies that were chosen are:

Verizon Communications Inc. and Health Service Managers

Purpose of Assignment

In
this week, students are learning about managing different types of
economic costs. Organizations typically have either high fixed costs or
low fixed costs, and it is important to understand how business
decisions differ in organizations with high fixed costs from
organizations with low fixed costs.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Tutorial help on Excel^® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft^®
Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web
offering support for Office products. Hoover’s Company Profiles by
ProQuest located in the University Library

Choose
two publicly-held organizations. One organization must have high fixed
costs and low variable costs, and the other organization must have low
fixed costs and high variable costs.

Note:
A publicly-held organization is a private-sector firm that is owned by
stock holders. Companies with high fixed costs include manufacturing
companies, such as automobile manufactures, whereas service companies,
such as accounting firms, might have low fixed costs.

Create a minimum 8-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®

presentation, including detailed speaker notes