The department of accounting of the University of New North Wales is responsible for teaching the accounting classes at the university. The accounting department is analyzing what it does. The purpose of the analysis is to operate more efficiently and allocate responsibilities among the professors. The accounting department is also thinking about hiring an administrator to perform certain activities that do not require the specific skills of the professors.

a. What are the general activities performed by an accounting department?

b. What activities could an administrator perform instead of a professor?

c. How could the costs of the different activities be measured?