Consider This Activity

A response to the Consider This Activity
created by Peter Sheedy (@PeterS)

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Photo found through Creative Commons Portal.  Searching Google Images.
Search words used   manufacturing; vehicle manufacturing; vehicle production line; production line
Photo by:  Defense Contract Management Agency
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The goal was to find a picture that could be used for discussion with students to help them visually understand costing classifications.   Visually, what is a direct cost and indirect cost?  What is a direct material cost, what is labour, and what is overhead?    This makes this concept more real than just reading them in a textbook and is more in line with what you need to do in the real world to figure this out.
I chose this particular picture because it is an F-35.   You tend to remember the bizarre and unusual rather than the ordinary.