Question

The manager of the Personnel Department at City Enterprises has been reading about time-driven ABC and wants to apply it to her department. She has identified four basic activities her employees spend most of the their time on: Interviewing, Hiring, Assessment, and Separation Processing. The department employs 20 staff who perform these activities. The manager provides the following estimates for the amount of time it takes to complete each of these activities:

• Interviewing: 60 minutes.

• Hiring: 75 minutes.

• Assessment: 105 minutes.

• Separation Processing: 105 minutes.

Employees in Personnel work 50-hour weeks with four weeks for vacation. Of the 50 hours, five are reserved for administrative tasks, training, and so on. The costs of the Personnel Department, including any allocated costs from other staff functions, are $987,000. During the year, Personnel conducted 2,700 interviews, made 675 hires, made 6,000 assessments, and had 325 separations.

Required:

a. What is the cost per minute for activities in Personnel? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b. What is the cost of interviewing and hiring one employee? (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

c. How many minutes of unused capacity did Personnel have for the year?

d. What was the cost of the unused capacity in Personnel? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Answer 1

a. What is the cost per minute for activities in Personnel?
total cost/ no. of hrs available for the personnel
987000/2592000
0.38	per minute

no. of hrs available
20employees*(50-5)hrs*(52-4)weeks*60min
2592000	min

b. What is the cost of interviewing and hiring one employee?
interviewing	60	0.38	22.8	$
hiring	75	0.38	28.5	$
total			51.3	$ per employee

c. How many minutes of unused capacity did Personnel have for the year?
interviewing	60	2700	162000
hiring	75	675	50625
assessment	105	6000	630000
separation processing	105	325	34125
total worked			876750
unused capacity	=	2592000	-	876750
	=	1715250	min
d. What was the cost of the unused capacity in Personnel
1715250*0.38
651795	$

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