ILLUSTRATION 15 The management of B.R Ltd. is worried about their increasing employee turnover in the factory and before analyzing the causes and taking remedial steps; it wants to have an idea of the profit foregone as a result of employee turnover in the last year Last year sales amounted to $ 83,03,300 and P/V ratio was 20 per cent. The total number of actual hours worked by the direct employee force was 4.45 lakhs. The actual direct employee hours included 30,000 hours attributable to training new recruits, out of which half of the hours were unproductive. As a result of the delays by the Personnel Department in filling vacancies due to employee turnover, 1,00,000 potentially productive hours (excluding unproductive training hours) were lost. The costs incurred consequent on employee turnover revealed, on analysis, the following: Settlement cost due to leaving $ 43,820 Recruitment costs $ 26,740 Selection costs $ 12,750 Training costs $ 30,490 Assuming that the potential production lost as a consequence of employee turnover could have been sold at prevailing prices, FIND the profit foregone last year on account of employee turnover.