“Agency workers deserve to be paid the same as employees if they’re doing the same job, so the government should look to close the loophole that allows agency workers to sign away their right to equal pay. How do firms choose their overhead cost assignment? How do firms choose optimal cash strategy determined by critical production activities that create and capture values? What is the nature and function of expense assignment? What are reasons for expense indicators or cost drivers? What are some policy implications of the Activity Based Costing in formulating effective cost assignment and spending budget strategies? British Glass is organising a one-day seminar on funding for decarbonisation and energy efficiency work on Thursday 2 November (north of England, venue TBC) – which will be attended by British Glass members’ and non-members. For a deal that is winning money, it is not as easy to make a deal as it is to make plans to deal with the loss of money. There are many possibilities. Any deviation from the plans can then be rectified through some type of intervention in the operation, which itself will probably involve some replanning. Deviations because of this plan are considered via a replanning activity and also the necessary interventions made to the job centre that can (hopefully) make certain that the new plan is carried out. Eventually, however, some additional deviation from planned activity is going to be detected along with the cycle is repeated. One portion of control, then, is periodic intervention in the activities of the operation. An important decision is how this intervention takes place. After August 1987, for example, as the dollar fell, people rushed to buy sterling, the high-yielding currency, which rose from $1.65 to $1.90 in a very short time, up almost 20%. In order to limit the rise in the pound, the UK cut interest rates for several consecutive times between may and June 1988, falling from 10% to 7.5%, with the pound falling every time it cut interest rates. But the pound began to pick up again after the bank of England was forced to raise interest rates several times as the pound weakened too quickly and inflationary pressures increased.