Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters (6th Edition)
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780134486857
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 25, Problem 1EI
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To determine
Identify whether outsourcing the payroll function increase or decrease the Company D’s operating income.
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To determine
State the manner in which each of the factors affects Person T’s decision if Person T wants to do the best for Company D’s associates and act ethically.
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Mary Tan is the controller for Duck Associates, a property management company in Portland, Oregon. Each year, Tan and payroll clerk Toby Stock meet with the external auditors about payroll accounting. This year, the auditors suggest that Tan consider outsourcing Duck Associates’ payroll accounting to a company specializing in payroll processing services. This would allow Tan and her staff to focus on their primary responsibility: accounting for the properties under management. At present, payroll requires 1.5 employee positions: payroll clerk Toby Stock and a bookkeeper who spends half her time entering payroll data in the system.
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The current payroll software that was purchased for $4,000 three years ago would not be needed if payroll processing were outsourced.
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Mary Tan is the controller for Duck Associates, a property management company in Portland, Oregon. Each year, Tan and payroll clerk Toby Stock meet with the external auditors about payroll accounting. This year, the auditors suggest that Tan consider outsourcing Duck Associates’s payroll accounting to a company specializing in payroll processing services. This would allow Tan and her staff to focus on their primary responsibility: accounting for the properties under management. At present, payroll requires 1.5 employee positions—payroll clerk Toby Stock and a bookkeeper who spends half her time entering payroll data in the system. Tan considers this suggestion, and she lists the following items relating to outsourcing payroll accounting:
The current payroll software that was purchased for $4,000 three years ago would not be needed if payroll processing were outsourced.
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Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Managerial Chapters (6th Edition)
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