Assignment:

Dan Schaefer, executive director of the Petersburg, VA, office of the Volunteers of America (VOA), is eager for the board of directors to approve his plan to open a day-care center in the Alta Vista housing community. Mr. Schaefer believes this proposal is an ideal way to begin to rebuild Alta Vista. The Petersburg VOA helped to establish this community in 1971; unfortunately, the residents have seen a rise in criminal activity and a decrease in their quality of life.

Although the board approves Mr. Schaefer's proposal at the end of the case, assume instead that he has hired you to analyze the proposal in preparation for the board meeting. Specifically, there are three parts to this assignment:

1.Read the case.

2.Make acost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis of the proposal's financial implications. Make analysis that includes the projected revenue, variable costs, and fixed costs for enrollment levels of 20, 25, 30 and 37 students using the monthly projections in Attachment A of the case. Then, compute the average contribution margin (CM) per student (computed as the total CM divided by the number of students enrolled) and the number of students that need to enroll at each of the four levels of enrollment for the center to break even. For this analysis, I have provided an Excel template in which I have already sorted variable and fixed costs. I have included the raw data, but I have not included the formulas.

oWhen you are finished with the CVP analysis,

3.

oDo you think that (a) Dan Schaefer should recommend the proposal or (b) Dan Schaefer should not recommend the proposal.

oSupport for your statement