Question

CodeHead Software Inc. does software development. One important activity in software development is writing software code. The manager of the WordPro Development Team determined that the average software programmer could write 25 lines of code in an hour. The plan for the first week in May called for 4,650 lines of code to be written on the WordPro product. The WordPro Team has five programmers. Each programmer is hired from an employment firm that requires temporary employees to be hired for a minimum of a 40-hour week. Programmers are paid $32.00 per hour. The manager offered a bonus if the team could generate more lines for the week, without overtime. Due to a project emergency, the programmers wrote more code in the first week of May than planned. The actual amount of code written in the first week of May was 5,650 lines, without overtime. As a result, the bonus caused the average programmer's hourly rate to increase to $40.00 per hour during the first week in May.

Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number. If an amount is zero, enter "0" and choose "Not applicable" from the dropdown.

Required:

1. If the team generated 4,650 lines of code according to the original plan, what would have been the labor time variance?
$  

2. What was the actual labor time variance as a result of generating 5,650 lines of code?
$  

3. What was the labor rate variance as a result of the bonus?
$  

4. The manager is trying to determine if a better decision would have been to hire a temporary programmer to meet the higher programming demand in the first week of May, rather than paying out the bonus. If another employee was hired from the employment firm, what would have been the labor time variance in the first week?
$  

5. Which decision is better, paying the bonus or hiring another programmer?

Answer 1

1	Labour Time Variance at 4650 lines
	Particulars	Lines	Hours	Pay/hour	Total Payment ($)
	Budgeted (25 lines/hour)	4,650	186	32	5,952
	Actual (200 hours to be used for 5 programmers)	4,650	200	32	6,400
	Unfavourable Variance				448

2	Labour Time Variance at 5650 lines
	Particulars	Lines	Hours	Pay/hour	Total Payment ($)
	Budgeted (25 lines/hour)	5,650	226	32	7,232
	Actual (200 hours to be used for 5 programmers)	5,650	200	40	8,000
	Unfavourable Variance				768

3	Labour Rate Variance at 5650 lines
	=(Actual rate - Standard rate) x Actual hours worked
	=(40-32) X 200
	=$1,600 - Unfavourable

4	Labour Time Variance at 5650 lines with one additional programmer
	Particulars	Lines	Hours	Pay/hour	Total Payment ($)
	Budgeted (25 lines/hour)	5,650	226	32	7,232
	Actual (240 hours to be used for 6 programmers)	5,650	240	32	7,680
	Unfavourable Variance				448

5	Hiring additional programmer would have been better as unfavourable variance would have been lesser by $ 320

Answer 2

despite making up 13% of the population blacks account for just over 50% of the homicide rate.

Answer 3

2. Labour Time Variance at 5650 Lines = $6400-7232=($832) Favorable Variance