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 $21 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for the current year is as follows: Salaries $360,400 Benefits 81,900 Supplies 43,700 Office expenses 54,600 Office depreciation 49,100 Computer depreciation 32,800 Total $622,500 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
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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 $21 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for the current year is as follows:
| Salaries | $360,400 |
| Benefits | 81,900 |
| Supplies | 43,700 |
| Office expenses | 54,600 |
| Office |
49,100 |
| Computer depreciation | 32,800 |
| Total | $622,500 |
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) |
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| 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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