Interperiod Measurement of Productivity Profiles

Helena Company needs to increase its profits and so has embarked on a program to increase its overall productivity. After one year of operation, Kent Olson, manager of the Columbus plant, reported the following results for the base period and its most recent year of operations:

	20x1	20x2
Output	184,400	217,200
Power (quantity used)	18,440	10,900
Materials (quantity used)	46,100	48,300

Required:

1. Compute the productivity profiles for each year. If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

	20x1	20x2
Power	fill in the blank 1	fill in the blank 2
Materials	fill in the blank 3	fill in the blank 4

2a. Did productivity improve?

2b. Explain why or why not.