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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3rd Edition by William N. Lanen, Shannon W. Anderson, Michael Maher
Edition 3ISBN: 0073527114Fundamentals of Cost Accounting 3rd Edition by William N. Lanen, Shannon W. Anderson, Michael Maher
Edition 3ISBN: 0073527114Partial Productivity Measures
The Food Services manager at North Central University (NCU) was looking at data from cafeterias in four different academic schools at NCU: Business, Engineering, Humanities&Sciences (H&S), and Music. She was curious to see how the different cafeterias were performing. She had the following data from the previous semester:
| Business | Engineering | H&S | Music |
Labor hours | 14,000 | 22,000 | 31,000 | 2,100 |
Meals served | 38,000 | 72,000 | 114,000 | 4,500 |
Required
a. Compute the partial productivity measures for labor for the four schools.
b. Comment on the results. Are there factors other than efficiency that might affect the results?
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