As the cost accounting manager at Cambria Chemicals (CC), you are responsible for compiling and reporting various performance measures to the senior managers. The company instituted many efficiency improvement programs recently, and the CFO has asked you to measure and report partial productivity for both labor and materials. Data for the last two years follow.

	Year 2	Year 1
Gallons input (thousands)	9,800	8,800
Labor-hours (thousands)	9,000	6,600
Gallons of output (thousands)	11,600	9,600

Required:

a. Compute the partial productivity measures for labor for year 1 and year 2.

b. Compute the partial productivity measures for material for year 1 and year 2.

c-1. Have the efficiency improvement programs resulted in greater labor productivity?

c-2. Have the efficiency improvement programs resulted in greater material productivity?