One of the operations in the United States Postal Service IS rate of 1.5 letters per second. The letter is mechanically sorted from a three-digit code input by an operator sitting at å key manager of the mechanical sorting operation wants to determine the number of temporary employees to hire for December. The managen estimates that there will be an additional 24,192,000 pieces of mail in December, due to the upcoming holiday season. Assume that the sorting operators are temporary employees. The union contract requires that temporary employees be hired for one mon at a time. Each temporary employee is hired to work 160 hours in the month. a. How many temporary employees should the manager hire for December? employees b. If each temporary employee earns a standard $16.40 per hour, what would be the labor time variance if the actual number of additiona letters sorted in December was 23,895,000? Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

One of the operations in the United States Postal Service IS rate of 1.5 letters per second. The letter is mechanically sorted from a three-digit code input by an operator sitting at å key manager of the mechanical sorting operation wants to determine the number of temporary employees to hire for December. The managen estimates that there will be an additional 24,192,000 pieces of mail in December, due to the upcoming holiday season. Assume that the sorting operators are temporary employees. The union contract requires that temporary employees be hired for one mon at a time. Each temporary employee is hired to work 160 hours in the month. a. How many temporary employees should the manager hire for December? employees b. If each temporary employee earns a standard $16.40 per hour, what would be the labor time variance if the actual number of additiona letters sorted in December was 23,895,000? Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

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Chapter23: Evaluating Variances From Standard Costs

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