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The billable-hour system is the way most lawyers in big firms charge clients, but it serves no one. Well, almost no one. It brings most equity partners in those firms great wealth. Law firm leaders call it a leveraged pyramid.
If a company is using theoretical standards, the calculated amount of standard hours allowed will be reduced, which means that there is likely to be an unfavorable variance between that number and the actual number of hours allowed.s an example of standard hours allowed, ABC International produces 500 green widgets during April. The labor routing states that each unit should require 1.5 hours of labor to produce. Therefore, the standard hours allowed is 750 hours, which is calculated as 500 units multiplied by 1.5 hours per unit.