Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781337912020
Author: Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 8, Problem 4TIF
Evaluating the budgeting system in a service company
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters Health System in Norfolk, Virginia, introduced a new budgeting method that allowed the hospital’s annual plan to be updated for changes in operating plans. For example, if the budget was based on 400 patient days (number of patients × number of days in the hospital) and the actual count rose to 450 patient days, the variable costs of staffing, lab work, and medication costs could be adjusted to reflect this change. The budget manager stated, “I work with hospital directors to turn data into meaningful information and effect change before the month ends.”
- a. What budgeting methods are being used under the new approach?
- b. Why are these methods superior to the former approaches?
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Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Health System in Norfolk, Virginia, introduced a new budgeting method that allowed the hospital's annual plan to be updated for changes in operating plans. For example, if the budget was based on 400 patient-days (number of patients × number of days in the hospital) and the actual count rose to 450 patient-days, the variable costs of staffing, lab work, and medication costs could be adjusted to reflect this change. The budget manager stated, “I work with hospital directors to turn data into meaningful information and effect change before the month ends.”
What budgeting method is being used under the new approach?
What budgeting method do you think was being used under the old method?
Casper Hospital bases its budgets on patient-visits. The hospital's static planning budget for May appears below:
The budgeted number of patient-visits
5,100
Budgeted variable costs:
Supplies (@ $2.70 per patient-visit)
$
13,770
Laundry (@ $3.00 per patient-visit)
15,300
Budgeted fixed costs:
Wages and salaries
16,830
Occupancy costs
16,890
Total expense
$
62,790
Required:
Prepare a flexible budget for 6,000 patient-visits per month.
The administrator of Break-a-Leg Hospital is aware of the need to keep his costs down because he just negotiated a new capitated arrangement with a large insurance company. Below are selected planned and actual expenses for the previous month.
Givens:
Budgeteda
Actual
A
Patient days
27,000
26,000
B
Pharmacy
$120,000
$160,000
C
Miscellaneous supplies
$66,000
$77,500
D
Fixed overhead costs
$808,000
$880,000
1. Prepare a flexible expense estimate for variable costs.
. Flexible budget estimate.
Budgeted
Flexible
Actual
Patient days
27,000
26,000
Cost per patient day
$6.89
$9.13
Total cost
$186,000
$237,500
2. Compute the volume variance.3. Compute the cost variance. 4. Compute the per unit cost variance.
5. Is the unfavorable variance caused by the volume of patients or the cost…
Chapter 8 Solutions
Managerial Accounting
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