Make-or-Buy Decision for a Service Company The Theater Arts Guild of Dallas (TAG

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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 quoting a price of $12 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for the current year is as follows:

The department expects to lay out 22,000 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 lay out 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.

b. The benefit from using an outside service is shown to be than performing the lay out 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.

Salaries $174,200 Benefits 39,600 Supplies 21,100 Office expenses 26,400 Office depreciation 23,800 Computer depreciation 15,800 Total $300,900

Explanation / Answer

Solution a:

Solution b:

The benefit from using an outside service is shown to be lower than performing the lay out work internally. The fixed costs (depreciation expenses) in the budget are not relevant to the decision. Thus, the layout work should be performed internally.

Solution c:

Before electing to terminate the five employees, the guild should consider the long run impact of the decision. Specifically, future pages layout rates may grow faster than cost of internal salaries thus favoring the use of employees over long run

Differential Analysis Lay out Pages Internally (Alt. 1) or Purchase Lay out Services (Alt. 2) 22-Feb Particulars Lay out Pages Internally (Alternative 1) Purchase Lay out Services (Alternative 2) Differential Effect on Income (Alternative 2) Selling Price $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Costs: Purchase price of lay out work $0.00 -$264,000.00 -$264,000.00 Salaries -$174,200.00 $0.00 $174,200.00 Benefits -$39,600.00 $0.00 $39,600.00 Supplies -$21,100.00 $0.00 $21,100.00 Office expenses -$26,400.00 $0.00 $26,400.00 Office depreciation -$23,800.00 -$23,800.00 $0.00 Computer depreciation -$15,800.00 -$15,800.00 $0.00 Income (loss) -$300,900.00 -$303,600.00 -$2,700.00

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