CPAs, Inc. BOR, a decentralized organization, is interested in evaluating the performance of the two divisions. The stockholders are responsible for deciding on investment in the two divisions. Cyrus Bailey is in charge of the performance evaluation, and turns to you for assistance. Mr. Bailey is only interested in evaluating operations at the profit center (division) level, and not at the cost center (department) level. Mr. Bailey is considering temporarily using some of the staff from the Tax Division to assist the Audit Division during the upcoming busy audit season, and would like to evaluate the effect of this on net income. The Tax Division is estimated to have 800 hours of excess capacity. The unit for determining sales revenue in both divisions is the "engagement", which means the total agreed-upon work for a given client in either audit or tax for a given year. The company charges on average a fee of $75,000 per audit engagement, and $15,750 per tax engagement. The company has its own Payroll Office, which provides payroll services to both divisions and will allocate its total expenses to the two divisions as support department allocations. The following chart shows some basic data for the company: Hourly market rate for staff (the price the company wou
BOR CPAs, Inc.
BOR, a decentralized organization, is interested in evaluating the performance of the two divisions. The stockholders are responsible for deciding on investment in the two divisions. Cyrus Bailey is in charge of the performance evaluation, and turns to you for assistance. Mr. Bailey is only interested in evaluating operations at the profit center (division) level, and not at the cost center (department) level.
Mr. Bailey is considering temporarily using some of the staff from the Tax Division to assist the Audit Division during the upcoming busy audit season, and would like to evaluate the effect of this on net income. The Tax Division is estimated to have 800 hours of excess capacity.
The unit for determining sales revenue in both divisions is the "engagement", which means the total agreed-upon work for a given client in either audit or tax for a given year. The company charges on average a fee of $75,000 per audit engagement, and $15,750 per tax engagement.
The company has its own Payroll Office, which provides payroll services to both divisions and will allocate its total expenses to the two divisions as support department allocations.
The following chart shows some basic data for the company:
| Hourly market rate for staff (the price the company would have to pay from an outside contractor for staff services) |
$100 |
| Average hourly cost rate for staff (the average price the company pays to its staff) | $60 |
| Number of paychecks issued by Audit Division | 110 |
| Number of paychecks issued by Tax Division | 340 |
| Total expense for Payroll Office | $29,250 |
| Amount of assets invested in Audit Division by BOR CPAs, Inc. | $10,000,000 |
| Amount of assets invested in Tax Division by BOR CPAs, Inc. | $4,000,000 |
Payroll
Mr. Bailey would like you to start by analyzing the Payroll Office expenses, and allocating the total expenses to each division. He has decided to use the number of payroll checks as the activity base for the allocation.
Fill in the following blanks, allocating the total expense for the Payroll Office to each of the two divisions.
Payroll Charge Rate $65
Division |
Support Department Allocations |
| Audit Division | 7150 |
| Tax Division | 22100 |
Cost Transfer Price
Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 results would have been had the Audit Division purchased all the excess capacity of the Tax Division, using a cost transfer price. The divisional managers tell you that, with the excess capacity of the Tax Division of 800 hours, the Audit Division can perform 4 more audits during the year, and the Audit Division would pay the Tax Division's internal hourly rate of $60 per hour for the additional hours required, with the Tax Division selling all its excess capacity to the Audit Division. The Tax Division would still be responsible for paying the salaries of their employees.
Complete the following Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter “0”.
| BOR CPAs, Inc. Divisional Income Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y8 |
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| Audit Division | Tax Division | Total Company | |
| Fees earned: | |||
| Audit fees (16 engagements) | $1,200,000 | $1,200,000 | |
| Tax fees (45 engagements) | $708,750 | 708,750 | |
| Transfer-pricing fees | fill in | fill in | |
| Expenses: | |||
| Variable: | |||
| Audit hours provided by Audit Division | (216,000) | (216,000) | |
| Tax hours provided by Tax Division | (283,500) | (283,500) | |
| Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff | fill in | fill in | |
| Audit hours provided by Tax Division | fill in | ||
| Fixed expenses | (50,000) | (65,500) | (115,500) |
| Operating income before support department allocations | $fill in | $fill in | $fill |
| Support department allocations for payroll | fill in | fill in | fill in |
| Operating income | $fill in | $fill in | $fill in |
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