Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors-home nursing, Meals on Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow: Revenues Variable expenses Contribution margin Fixed expenses: Depreciation Liability insurance Program administrators' salaries General administrative overhead* Total fixed expenses Operating income (loss) Total $1,044,000 Home Nursing $301,600 Meals on House- Wheels keeping $464,000 $278,400 581,200 142,400 250,000 188,800 462,800 159,200 214,000 89,600 74,080 9,280 42,400 22,400 47,920 22,400 8,600 16,920 125.400 44,000 40,400 41,000 208,800 60,320 92,800 55,680 456,200 136,000 184,200 136,000 $ 6,600 $ 23,200 $ 29,800 $(46,400) *Allocated on the basis of program revenues. The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization's finances and considers the operating income of $6,600 last year to be razor-thin. (Last year's results were very similar to the results for previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future.) She feels that the organization should be building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the housekeeping program. The depreciation in the housekeeping category is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment from job to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. Depreciation charges assume zero salvage value. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were dropped, but the liability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided.
Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors-home nursing, Meals on Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow: Revenues Variable expenses Contribution margin Fixed expenses: Depreciation Liability insurance Program administrators' salaries General administrative overhead* Total fixed expenses Operating income (loss) Total $1,044,000 Home Nursing $301,600 Meals on House- Wheels keeping $464,000 $278,400 581,200 142,400 250,000 188,800 462,800 159,200 214,000 89,600 74,080 9,280 42,400 22,400 47,920 22,400 8,600 16,920 125.400 44,000 40,400 41,000 208,800 60,320 92,800 55,680 456,200 136,000 184,200 136,000 $ 6,600 $ 23,200 $ 29,800 $(46,400) *Allocated on the basis of program revenues. The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization's finances and considers the operating income of $6,600 last year to be razor-thin. (Last year's results were very similar to the results for previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future.) She feels that the organization should be building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the housekeeping program. The depreciation in the housekeeping category is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment from job to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. Depreciation charges assume zero salvage value. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were dropped, but the liability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided.
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Transcribed Image Text:Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in
their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors-home nursing, Meals on
Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general
health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each
senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on
revenue and expenses for the past year follow:
Revenues
Variable expenses
Contribution margin
Fixed expenses:
Depreciation
Liability insurance
Program administrators' salaries
General administrative overhead*
Total fixed expenses
Operating income (loss)
Total
$1,044,000
Home
Nursing
$301,600
Meals on
House-
Wheels
keeping
$464,000
$278,400
581,200
142,400
250,000
188,800
462,800
159,200
214,000
89,600
74,080
9,280
42,400
22,400
47,920
22,400
8,600
16,920
125.400
44,000
40,400
41,000
208,800
60,320
92,800
55,680
456,200
136,000
184,200
136,000
$
6,600
$ 23,200
$ 29,800
$(46,400)
*Allocated on the basis of program revenues.
The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization's finances
and considers the operating income of $6,600 last year to be razor-thin. (Last year's results were very similar to the results for
previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future.) She feels that the organization should be
building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above
report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the housekeeping program.
The depreciation in the housekeeping category is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment
from job to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. Depreciation charges
assume zero salvage value. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were
dropped, but the liability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided.
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