Direct Labor Budget for Service

The School of Accounting $($SOA$)$ at State University is planning its annual fundraising campaign for

accounting alumni. This year, the SOA is planning a call$-$a$-$thon and will ask Beta Alpha Psi members to

volunteer to make phone calls to a list of $5,000$ alumni. The Dean's office has agreed to let Beta Alpha Psi

use their offices from $6$ p$.$m$.$ to $9$ p$.$m$.$ each weekday so that they will have access to phones. Each

volunteer will be provided with a phone and a script with an introduction and suggested responses to

various questions that had been asked in the past. Monique Johnson, Beta Alpha Psi faculty advisor,

estimates the following:

Of the $5,000$ phone numbers, roughly $10$ percent will be wrong numbers $($because alumni change

addresses and phone numbers without updating State University$).$ In that case, the student is

instructed to apologize to the answering party, hang up$,$ and move on to the next phone number.

Each of these calls takes about three minutes.

Another $15$ percent will be correct numbers, but no one is home and the voicemail picks up$.$ In that

case, the student is instructed to simply hang up and move on to the next phone number. Each of

these calls takes about two minutes.

Each time an alumnus answers the phone, the student is instructed to introduce him or herself and

read the scripted introduction. The student is encouraged to engage the alumnus in conversation and

reminiscences about State $U$ and bring the alum up to date on the wonderful things that are

happening in the SOA. Some calls are longer, some shorter, but the average call length is $10$ minutes.

Required:

Prepare a direct labor budget, in hours, for the fundraising call$-$a$-$thon. If $15$ students volunteer, how

many evenings will the phone$-$a$-$thon take?

The School of Accounting $($SOA$)$

Direct Labor Budget In Hours