5th September 2008, 02:29 PM
At the end of the day a commecial unit is a company and if it can operate in the market and make a profit then I say good luck to them. A company must make profit to survive. The main issue is that the work can still meet the Brief set out by the planners and its up to them to ensure standards of specific projects are maintained and all objectives forfilled. Cash surprus needs to be built up in order to sustain the company and its employees during quiet times. Also profit is needed to reinvest into the company for staff training and dare i say it better wages. Having said this i think it is un ethical to extract profit from an archaeological company and use the money elsewhere. If there is surplus it should be used for other archaeological related projects such as publicy/archaeological research.