The Production Manager of a Company, in an Effort to Gain

question 41

Multiple Choice

The production manager of a company, in an effort to gain a promotion, negotiated a new labor contract with her factory employees that required them to bear a greater percentage of benefit costs than before, thus bringing down the cost of direct labor to the company. Shortly afterward, several experienced and highly skilled workers resigned, and were replaced by new employees whose work was very slow during their training period. At the end of the quarter, the company's profits fell 10%. This situation could have produced which of the following variances?

• A) Unfavorable materials price variance
• B) Unfavorable labor price variance
• C) Unfavorable labor efficiency variance
• D) Favorable materials efficiency variance

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

A statistical concept that defines the number of independent pieces of information in a dataset used in parameter estimates.

Population Variances

The measurement of how much the numbers in a specific population are spread out from their mean.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data that is used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Confidence Interval

An interval of figures obtained from statistics of a sample, expected to include the value of a hidden population parameter.