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Invoicing and reporting data were collected and analysis was conducted to provide management with an overview of the typical amount of time it takes to complete one invoice beginning when it is picked out of an accountant s monthly stack until it is signed and submitted to the sponsor excluding mail delivery times Invoices due for a month are provided to the accountant during the first week of the month with the expectation that all invoices will be completed and submitted to the sponsor no later than the fifth day of the following month The monthly invoicing workload of each accountant varies as quarter and year end months are peak invoicing times Accountants do not have a mandated number of items to complete on a daily or other basis as long as all invoices are complete by the previously stated deadline however the suggested timeline given by management includes a minimum of ten invoices per day until completion A data sample of twenty three invoices completed over a two day period was collected for analysis in order to assist management with visualizing the length of time to complete an invoice for consideration when reviewing expectations Invoices with interruptions exceeding two minutes were excluded from the dataset as they had to be restarted from the beginning for best accuracy Data Analysis The dataset has been included at the end of the report and below is the summary report including a histogram and basic statistical calculations First analysis covers the location data George Rowlands Price Maxey 2005 As seen by the above histogram there is a rightward skew which happens when the mean is greater than the median Paret 1970
