Quality improvement, relevant costs, relevant revenues. Flagstar Conference Center and Catering is a conference center and restaurant facility that hosts over 300 national and international events each year attended by 50,000 professionals. Due to increased competition and soaring customer expectations, the company has been forced to revisit its quality standards. In the company's 25 year history, customer demand has never been greater for high quality products and services. Flagstar has the following budgeted fixed and variable costs for 2011:

The company's budgeted operating income is $3,500,000.After conducting a survey of 3,000 conference attendees, the company has learned that its customers would most like to see the following changes in the quality of the company's products and services: 1) more menu options and faster service, 2) more incidental products and services (wireless access in all meeting rooms, computer stations for internet use, free local calling, etc.), and 3) upscale and cleaner meeting facilities. To satisfy these customer demands, the company would be required to increase fixed costs by 50% per year and increase variable costs by $10 per attendee as follows:

Flagstar believes that the preceding improvements in product and service quality would increase overall conference attendance by 40%.Required1. What is the budgeted revenue per conference attendee?2. Assuming budgeted revenue per conference attendee is unchanged, should Flagstar implement the proposed changes?3. Assuming budgeted revenue per conference attendee is unchanged, what is the variable cost per conference attendee at which Flagstar would be indifferent between implementing and not implementing the proposedchanges?

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Variable Cost per Conference Total Conference Center Fixed Cost Attendee Building and facilities Management salaries Customer support and service personnel Food and drink Conference materials Incidental products and services $3,600,000 S1,400,000 $100 $ 35 $ 15