Write 3 pages. Please respond following questions and provide source. Please write question number on each response. 

1. Use the Internet to research a U.S.-based company that manufactures technology products. Recommend one (1) approach that your selected company can take in order to lower the direct labor costs of technology products while remaining competitive with global markets. Provide a rationale for your recommended approach.
2. Imagine that you are a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a company. Recommend two (2) actions that you could take regarding the company's supply chain to reduce manufacturing costs of direct materials.
3. Analyze the major benefits and major weaknesses of traditional Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in determining accurate overhead costs over a time-driven ABC system. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Suggest the manner in which a business can achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace through the use of ABC. Provide two (2) reasons to convince senior management that they should implement an ABC system.
5. Read the article titled, "The Missing Metrics: Managing the Cost of Complexity" l Next, in a globalized economy with many business complexities, speculate the major ways that these complexities might impact a business and suggest two (2) actions that a business can take in order to minimize these consequences.
6. From the previous discussion, recommend one (1) approach that an accountant could take in order to measure the types of complexity you identified for a specific business or industry and determine the insight that the measure will provide in relation  to business performance.