Make-or-Buy Decision for a Service Company The Theater Arts Guild of Dallas (TAG-D) employs five people in its Publication Department. These people lay out pages for pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and other publications for the TAG-D productions. The pages are delivered to an outside company for printing. The company is considering an outside publication service for the layout work. The outside service is quoting a price of $16 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for the current year is as follows: Salaries $274,600 Benefits 62,400 Supplies 33,300 Office expenses 41,600 Office depreciation 37,400 Computer depreciation 25,000 Total $474,300 The department expects to lay out 26,000 pages for the current year. The Publication Department office space and equipment would be used for future administrative needs, if the department's function were purchased from the outside. a.  Prepare a differential analysis dated February 22 to determine whether TAG-D should layout pages internally (Alternative 1) or purchase layout services from the outside (Alternative 2). If an amount is zero, enter "0". For those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign. Differential Analysis Lay out Pages Internally (Alt. 1) or Purchase Layout Services (Alt. 2) February 22   Lay out Pages Internally (Alternative 1) Purchase Lay out Services (Alternative 2) Differential Effect on Income (Alternative 2) Sales price $ $ $ Costs:       Purchase price of lay out work $ $ $ Salaries       Benefits       Supplies       Office expenses       Office depreciation       Computer depreciation       Income (loss) $ $ $ b.  The benefit from using an outside service is shown to be   than performing the layout work internally. The fixed costs (depreciation expenses) in the budget are   to the decision. Thus, the work should   purchased from the outside on a strictly financial basis. c.  Before electing to   the five employees, the Guild should consider the   of the decision.

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Fisher Fixtures manufactures three types of lighting fixtures, with model names of Silver, Gold, and Platinum. It applies all indirect costs according to an annual predetermined rate based on direct labor-hours. The plant controller has recommended that the company switch to an activity-based costing system. The controller's staff prepared the following cost estimates for next year (year 2) for the recommended cost drivers. Activity Recommended Cost Driver Estimated Cost Estimated Cost Driver Activity Purchasing material Number of purchase orders $ 130,800 240 purchase orders Receiving material Direct materials cost 238,400 $ 2,980,000   Setting up equipment Number of production runs 231,840 120 runs Machine depreciation and maintenance Machine-hours 80,260 16,052 hours Ensuring regulatory compliance Number of inspections 459,000 54 inspections Shipping Number of units shipped 1,087,200 604,000 units Total estimated cost   $ 2,227,500     In addition, management…

Alter's Home Center (AHC) sells renovation and remodeling products to both contractors and individual home owners. One of the services AHC offers is delivery of the purchased products to the customer's work site. Because not all customers take advantage of the delivery service option, ACH adds 10 percent to the cost of the products purchased to cover the delivery cost. A business intern spent the summer at ACH. The intern's assignment was to analyze the delivery service and recommend a better way to charge customers for using it. The intern, who had studied activity-based costing, identified the following activities and the data related to them: Activity Picking order Delivering order Handling complaints Total delivery cost Cost Driver Number of items Number of orders Number of complaints Annual Cost $ 286,000 522,500 32,400 $ 840,900 Total order value (before delivery charge) Number of orders The intern selected two customers, who were frequent customers, to use as an illustration of…

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Activity-Based Costing: Selling and Administrative Expenses Jungle Junior Company manufactures and sells outdoor play equipment. Jungle Junior uses activity-based costing to determine the cost of the sales order processing and the customer return activity. The sales order processing activity has an activity rate of $20 per sales order, and the customer return activity has an activity rate of $100 per return. Jungle Junior sold 2,500 swing sets, which consisted of 750 orders and 80 returns. a. Determine the total sales order processing and customer return activity cost for swing sets. $ b. Determine the per-unit sales order processing and customer return activity cost for swing sets. Round your answer to the nearest cent. per unit ********* 200

Alter's Home Center (AHC) sells renovation and remodeling products to both contractors and individual home owners. One of the services AHC offers is delivery of the purchased products to the customer's work site. Because not all customers take advantage of the delivery service option, ACH adds 10 percent to the cost of the products purchased to cover the delivery cost. A business intern spent the summer at ACH. The intern's assignment was to analyze the delivery service and recommend a better way to charge customers for using it. The intern, who had studied activity-based costing, identified the following activities and the data related to them: Activity Picking order Delivering order Handling complaints Total delivery cost Cost Driver Number of items Number of orders Number of complaints Total order value (before delivery charge) Number of orders Annual Cost $ 321,640 850,500 29,440 $ 1,201,580 The intern selected two customers, who were frequent customers, to use as an illustration…

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Body-Solid Inc. manufactures elliptical exercise machines and treadmills. The products are prouced in its Fabrication and Assembly production departments. In addition to production activities, several other activities are required to produce the two products. These activities and their associated activity rates are as follows: Activity Activity Rate Fabrication $25 per machine hour Assembly $12 per direct labor hour Setup $52 per setup Inspecting $25 per inspection Production scheduling $13 per production order Purchasing $10 per purchase order The activity - base usage quantities and units produced for each product were as follows: Activity Base Elliptical Machines Treadmill Machine hours 1,845 1,089 Direct labor hours 472 184 Setups 58 18 Inspections 630 378 Production orders 63 13 Purchase orders 181 110 Units produced 272 182 This information has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file. Open the spreadsheet, perform the required analysis, and input your answers in the…

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