Budgets serve five main purposes; planning, facilitating communication and coordination, allocating resources, controlling profits and operations and evaluating performance and providing incentives. The budgeting process requires both technical and interpersonal leadership skills to achieve each of these purposes effectively. The director’s memo demonstrates several short comings in the budgeting process. The director instituted the “responsibility accounting system” as a means of evaluating performance. However, the DPW director has not consulted Sam in the budget process. Sam understands that his total expenditures are impacted by relatively unpredictable events that contribute to an uncontrollable element of his cost. The …show more content…
However, if we look at hours plowed as the cost driver, the amount of hours plowed per day actually decreases from 100 to 97.92. Thus, Sam must be overestimating the amount of overtime pay incurred per day, further increasing the need for him to increase the standard rates of his cost drivers.
A more efficient way to determine the total cost of drivers would be for Sam to use plow hours as a cost driver, and plug his average base wage rate and budgeted hours into this equation:
Driver’s Cost = (% of wage overtime x budgeted hours x 1.5 x base wage rate) + (% regular pay x budgeted hours x base wage rate)
Simply using a constant rate with plow hours to determine driver cost is not sufficient, since driver cost is step-variable due to overtime pay.
The % of wage overtime changes depending on the number of employees Sam has and the base wage rate. Since the case didn’t specify, assume that Sam has 10 employees. Each employee is then working 9.79 hours per day if actual hours per day is 97.92, which equates to 18% overtime pay (1.79 / 9.79). Since actual costs were $24,675, if we plug those numbers into the equation we can find a more accurate base wage rate for Sam’s company.
24,675 = (18% x 1175 x 1.5 x base wage rate) + (82% x 1175 x base wage rate)
Base wage rate = $19.27
So if this is the base wage rate, we can see why Sam’s previous prediction of an $18 average wage was off. The average
Name: Amber Smith CAUTION: See "round" rules in Excel Instructions before calculating OT for slaried employees. Enter the appropriate numbers/formulas in the shaded (gray) cells. An asterisk (*) will appear to the right of an incorrect answer. For a breakdown of the solution by chapter, see the worksheet tabs labeled CPP 2 through 6 representing the solutions for chapters 2-6. Continuing Payroll Problem-B
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| if maritalStatus = ‘M’ taxRate = MARRIED_RATEif maritalStatus = ‘S’ taxRate = SINGLE_RATEif maritalStatus = ‘D’ taxRate = DIVORCED_RATEif maritalStatus = ‘W’ taxRate = WIDOWED_RATEIf hoursWorked <= 40 grossPay = hoursWorked * hourlyRateElse regularPay = (40 * hourlyRate) overtimePay = ((hoursWorked-40) * (hourlyRate * 1.5)) grossPay = regularPay + overtimePaytaxAmount = grossPay * taxRatenetPay = grossPay - taxAmount
Springfield Express has an opportunity to obtain a new route that would be traveled 20 times per month. The company believes it can sell seats at $ 175 on the route, but the load factor would be only 60 percent. Fixed cost would increase by $ 250,000 per month for additional personnel, additional passenger train cars, maintenance, and so on. Variable cost per passenger would remain at $ 70.
Unit contribution = Unit Price – Unit Variable Cost = $1.80 – $1.40 = $0.40
7) NCC is considering the purchase of two new dryers(each costs $10000, the cost includes installation cost) and conversion of up to 10 dry berry holding bins (each costs $2000, that includes labor and material cost) so that they can hold water-harvested or dry berries. What are your recommendations? Assume that drivers are paid $12 per hour.
Relevant Costs, Insurance, Fuel, Oil Lubricants, Tolls, Parts and Small Tools, Hourly wages: Drivers, Trailer Pool Expense
2.) For each expense that is variable with respect to revenue hours, calculate the cost per revenue hour.
This technique (multiple regressions) takes more than one cost drivers into consideration so the estimation would be more close to the salary cost that we have already. In this problem the multiple regressions (0.861549482) has the bigger R square than single
Then the issue with the weekly average wage. Harris v Lily Transportation governs this squarely on point and Bill Gardner is wrong. It doesn’t matter how the CBA defines “overtime” it matters how the statute defines overtime and the situation in Harris and Lily was exactly the same because in that case the CBA provided for overtime payments for time over 8 and besides which the parties don’t get to decide what the statute means
A. Some of the possible drivers of salary cost are Number or Departures, Revenue Ton Miles, Revenue Miles scheduled, Revenue passenger miles and there are countless more you could use.
1- The total unit cost = Total Variable Cost + Production Fixed Expenses + Advertising Expense + Selling and Administrative Expense = 3.23 + 1.20 + 0.30 + 0.19 = 4.92.
Some of the problems that one might encounter using time-series data to estimate the parameters of this model, could be the change in the number of buses that are taken out of service each year. This is because only certain buses are taken out which means that they would not be any consistency in the amount of buses taken out. Another problem could be are all the buses. Another problem could be the condition of the bus, the bus may not be as old, but may cause problems and are taken out of service and might affect the average range of miles.
For instance, if annual cost of a mix wagon is $3,000, then an equivalent increase in net
(iii) The average cost will stay the same which is the old hourly wage system just like in ‘Previous System’