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Hi,
I don’t understand what is the meaning of direct data capture. Please help me to solve the question below and explain to me what it meant by direct data capture. Thanks a lot.
The following costs relate to MA information for KC for October 20X0:
Cost:
Employee time spent filing in their time sheets
$600Use of barcodes and scanners to record inventory
$200Storage of sales information no longer needed
$400Time taken by staff to input data into production system
$900What were the total direct capture costs for KC for October 20X0?
A. $200
B. $800
C. $1700
D. $2100Employee time spent filing in their time sheets
$600
Time taken by staff to input data into production system
$900^These both say the same thing in different words and numbers. The time taken by staff to input data has nothing to do with the actual action being input of data. It’s only a measure of the time taken to the input the data in terms of some $cost.
Storage of sales information no longer needed
$400
^That’s like the cost of holding inventory that isn’t going to be sold anyway.Use of barcodes and scanners to record inventory
$200
There’s your answer. A type of data input where there no there is no data entry like staff typing in stuff (for others). So readers- scanners/barcodes that capture data (like taking a picture of a road as opposed to drawing or writing a map) are a form of direct data capture.*There’s a bit of confusion which comes from this extended meaning of direct data capture which is from this older exam question- https://opentuition.com/topic/information-cost/
Shivangi: Please do not answer question in this forum because it is the Ask the Tutor Forum and you are not the tutor (although please do help students in the other Paper PM forum 🙂 ).
Sarah762: What Shivangi has written is correct. Direct data capture is explained in my free lectures on Chapter 20 of our free lecture notes. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper PM and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
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