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 4,000 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. Carol Johnson, Beta Alpha Psi faculty advisor, estimates the following:

1. Of the 4,000 phone numbers, roughly 5 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.
2. Another 20 percent will be correct numbers, but no one is home and the answering machine 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.
3. 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:

1. Prepare a direct labor budget, in hours, for the fundraising call-a-thon. If 10 students volunteer, how many evenings will the phone-a-thon take? If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

The School of Accounting (SOA)
Direct Labor Budget In Hours
Minutes for wrong numbers	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_2
Minutes for answering machine calls	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_4
Minutes for alumni contact calls	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_6
Total minutes	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_7
60 minutes per hour	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_9
Total student hours	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_10
Number of students	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_12
Total hours per volunteer	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_13
3 hours per night	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_15
Total nights of calling	fill in the blank 624b42ff802b07e_16

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The direct labor budget shows the total direct labor hours and cost needed for the number of units in the production budget. In the direct labor budget, the wage rate used is the average wage paid the direct laborers associated with production.

2. What if the phone-a-thon can be moved to the State University Foundation phone bank? That facility has an automated calling system that will automatically dial the phone numbers and route all answered calls directly to students. As a result, no time is spent dialing and listening to answering machines. The time savings due to having the numbers automatically dialed and routed mean that the average length of a wrong number call drops to one minute and the average length of an alumni call drops to eight minutes. Prepare a direct labor budget, in hours, for the fundraising call-a-thon at the State University Foundation. If 10 students volunteer, how many evenings will the phone-a-thon take? If required, round your answers to two decimal places. If an amount is zero, enter "0".

State University Foundation
Direct Labor Budget In Hours
Minutes for wrong numbers	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_2
Minutes for answering machine calls	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_4
Minutes for alumni contact calls	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_6
Total minutes	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_7
60 minutes per hour	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_9
Total student hours	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_10
Number of students	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_12
Total hours per volunteer	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_13
3 hours per night	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_15
Total nights of calling	fill in the blank 98ef54f8a036fea_16