WD Imagine Inc. has three locations in Canada: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The company develops and maintains web-designs for medium size companies. Management of Vancouver office is concerned about the cost of handling web-related matters.
WD Imagine Vancouver Office has provided the following data for the year 2019:
Junior web-designers salaries $ 280,000
Senior web-designers salaries $ 320,000
Office manager salary $ 120,000
WD accountant believes that apart from salaries all other expenses are fixed costs and cannot be meaningfully assigned to individual job.
The employees of WD-Vancouver Office have prepared the following table that shows how their time was distributed last year across the two activities
Employee group |
Developing complex web-design jobs |
Routine web-design maintenance jobs |
Other |
Total |
Junior web-designers Wages |
50% |
40% |
10% |
100% |
Senior web-designers wages |
40% |
30% |
30% |
100% |
Office manager salary |
5% |
20% |
75% |
100% |
Jobs at Vancouver office during 2019 were as follows:
Activity |
Total Activity at Vancouver branch |
Developing complex web-design |
100 Jobs |
Routine web-design maintenance |
800 jobs |
The costs relating to these activities for Toronto office are listed below:
Activity |
Cost per Activity for Toronto Bank |
Developing complex web-design |
$ 3,000 per job |
Routine web-design maintenance jobs |
$ 200 per job |
Required:
a. Compute Vancouver office activity rates for developing complex wed-design AND Routine web-design jobs. (14 marks)
b. Compare the Vancouver results to that of Toronto Office. Suggest two possible reason for the discrepancies noted in each activity rate: complex wed-design AND Routine web-design jobs. (ie 4 in total). (4 marks)
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WD Imagine Inc. | |||
Answer a | |||
Particulars | Developing complex web-design jobs | Routine web-design maintenance jobs | |
Junior web-designers Wages | 50% | 40% | |
Junior web-designers salaries | 280,000.00 | 280,000.00 | |
Allocation | 140,000.00 | 112,000.00 | |
Senior web-designers wages | 40% | 30% | |
Senior web-designers salaries | 320,000.00 | 320,000.00 | |
Allocation | 128,000.00 | 96,000.00 | |
Total cost | 268,000.00 | 208,000.00 | |
Number of jobs | 100.00 | 800.00 | |
Rate per job | 2,680.00 | 260.00 | |
Answer b | Vancouver office | Toronto office | Difference |
Developing complex web-design jobs | 2,680.00 | 3,000.00 | (320.00) |
Routine web-design maintenance jobs | 260.00 | 200.00 | 60.00 |
Reason: |
Rate of allocation by Vancouver office is not corrected. It should recheck the % of service allotted to each job. |
It should perform more jobs of complex web design to lower the per job rate. |
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