Estimating Editorial Tasks: A Five-Step Method
http://www.neostc.org/lines/Archives/1201/estimating_editorial.html

Cormier, Robin A.
STC Northeast Ohio
2001

Abstract:

Accurate time estimates are essential to projecting the costs of doing work, whether it's for external clients or other departments within an organization. In the olden days, it didn't seem to matter how many hours were spent editing, as long as all the errors were caught. Now, managers everywhere are looking for ways to cut costs; they want to know in advance how long things will take so they can monitor their increasingly strained budgets. Publications are often a prime target for cost cuts.