Question

Various financial data for Year 1 and Year 2 follow. Calculate the total productivity measure and the partial productivity measures for labor, capital, and raw materials for this company for both years. What do these measures tell you about this company?
Last year This year
Output Sales $200,000 $220,000
Input Labor 30,000 40,000
Raw Materials 35,000 45,000
Energy 5,000 6,000
Capital 50,000 50,000
Other 2,000 3,000

Answer 1

Answer:

See below

Explanation:

With regards to the above, the formula for total productivity measure is

= Output Sales( Total output) / Total Input

Total productivity measurement for Last year.

Output sales = $200,000

Total input = Input labor + Raw materials + Energy + Capital + others

= $30,000 + $35,000 + $5,000 + $50,000 + $2,000

= $122,000

Therefore, total productivity measure

= $200,000/$122,000

= 1.64

Total productivity measurement for this year

Output sales= $220,000

Total input = Input labor + raw materials + energy + capital + others

= $40,000 + $45,000 + $6,000 + $50,000 + $3,000

= $144,000

Therefore, total productivity measure

= $220,000/$144,000

= 1.53

Partial productivity for last year

Output sales = $200,000

Input = Input labor + raw materials + capital

= $30,000 + $35,000 + $50,000

= $115,000

Partial productivity measure = $200,000/$115,000

= 1.74

Partial productivity measure for this year

Output sales = $220,000

Input = Input labor + raw materials + capital

= $40,000 + $45,000 + $50,000

= $135,000

Therefore, partial productivity measurement for last year

= $220,000/$135,000

= 1.63

The above measures indicates that there is a reduction in total productivity measures from last year to this year. Same applies to partial productivity measures for both years.