Shalom Company produces Peace Products. The management sought your help to evaluate processes to improve the company's operation and productivity. As the accountant of the firm's parent organization, your suggested a new compensation plan based on throughput performance measure as an incentive to increase productivity. You gathered the following production data: Good units manufactured Targeted units to be manufactured Value-added processing time Processing time (total hours) Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency. 180,000 200,000 1,152,000 1,440,000

Shalom Company produces Peace Products. The management sought your help to evaluate processes to improve the company's operation and productivity. As the accountant of the firm's parent organization, your suggested a new compensation plan based on throughput performance measure as an incentive to increase productivity. You gathered the following production data: Good units manufactured Targeted units to be manufactured Value-added processing time Processing time (total hours) Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency. 180,000 200,000 1,152,000 1,440,000

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