Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259565403
Author: William N. Lanen Professor, Shannon Anderson Associate Professor, Michael W Maher
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 36E
Partial Productivity Measures
Looking for cost savings in administrative areas, the vice-president for human resources at McMahon Corporation asked his assistant to collect data on the employee cafeterias in the four McMahon locations around the country. After two days, the assistant returned with the following data for the previous year:
Required
- a. Compute the partial productivity measures for labor for the four locations.
- b. Comment on the results. Are there factors other than efficiency that might affect the results?
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