CAPE Management of Business Unit 2 · 2010 · Paper 2 · Question 2(a)(ii)

Afoor's, a manufacturing company, provided data on materials used and output of workers over a five-week period. Standard price of materials is 140 per unit. Employees work 40-hour weeks at 12 per hour. Overhead is 1.5 times weekly labour cost, and material cost is $6 per pound.

Explain the implication of the productivity figures for the company.

This question uses a figure or table from the paper — you'll see it when you practise.