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BOR CPAs, Inc. is a closely held corporation owned by three stockholders who used the initials of their last names to form the corporations name:
BOR CPAs, Inc. is a closely held corporation owned by three stockholders who used the initials of their last names to form the corporations name: Cyrus Bailey, John Ogden, and Samuel Rogers. The firms Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) perform audits of both public companies and privately owned companies. BORs CPAs also provide tax services to both individuals and businesses.
The corporation is divided into two profit centers: the Audit Division and the Tax Division. Each division is composed of two cost centers. The Audit Division is composed of two cost-center departments: Public Company Audits and Private Company Audits. The Tax Division is composed of two cost-center departments also: Individual Tax and Business Tax.
BOR, a decentralized organization, is interested in evaluating the performance of the two divisions. The stockholders are responsible for deciding on investment in the two divisions. Cyrus Bailey is in charge of the performance evaluation, and turns to you for assistance. Mr. Bailey is only interested in evaluating operations at the profit center (division) level, and not at the cost center (department) level.
Mr. Bailey is considering temporarily using some of the staff from the Tax Division to assist the Audit Division during the upcoming busy audit season, and would like to evaluate the effect of this on net income. The Tax Division is estimated to have 800 hours of excess capacity.
The unit for determining sales revenue in both divisions is the "engagement", which means the total agreed-upon work for a given client in either audit or tax for a given year. The company charges on average a fee of $75,000 per audit engagement, and $15,750 per tax engagement.
The company has its own Payroll Office, which provides payroll services to both divisions and will allocate its total expenses to the two divisions as service department charges.
The following chart shows some basic data for the company:
Hourly market rate for staff (the price the company would have to pay from an outside contractor for staff services)
$110.00
Average hourly cost rate for staff (the average price the company pays to its staff)
$50.00
Number of paychecks issued by Audit Division
110
Number of paychecks issued by Tax Division
340
Total expense for Payroll Office
$29,250
Amount of assets invested in Audit Division by BOR CPAs, Inc.
$10,000,000
Amount of assets invested in Tax Division by BOR CPAs, Inc.
$4,000,000
Mr. Bailey would like you to start by analyzing the Payroll Office expenses, and allocating the total expenses to each division. He has decided to use the number of payroll checks as the activity base for the allocation.
Fill in the following blanks, allocating the total expense for the Payroll Office to each of the two divisions.
Payroll Charge Rate
per payroll check
Division
Allocated Service Department Charges
Audit Division
Tax Division
Mr. Bailey has prepared the following divisional income statement for you to review, assuming no transfer of excess capacity hours occurs. He has also included the total amounts for BOR CPAs, Inc. in the rightmost column.
Complete the following Income Statements with your data from the Payroll panel. Enter all amounts as positive numbers.
BOR CPAs, Inc.
Income Statements
For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y1
1
Audit Division
Tax Division
Total Company
2
Fees earned:
3
Audit fees (12 engagements)
$900,000.00
$900,000.00
4
Tax fees (45 engagements)
$708,750.00
708,750.00
5
Transfer-pricing fees
0.00
6
Expenses:
7
Variable:
8
Audit hours provided by Audit Division
180,000.00
180,000.00
9
Tax hours provided by Tax Division
236,250.00
236,250.00
10
Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff
40,000.00
40,000.00
11
Audit hours provided by Tax Division
0.00
0.00
12
Fixed expenses
50,000.00
65,500.00
115,500.00
13
Income from operations before service department charges
$670,000.00
$367,000.00
$1,037,000.00
14
Service department charges for payroll
15
Income from operations
Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y1 results would have been had the Audit Division purchased all the excess capacity of the Tax Division, using a market transfer price. The divisional managers tell you that, with the excess capacity of the Tax Division of 800 hours, the Audit Division can perform 4 more audits during the year, and the Tax Division would charge the Audit Division the market rate of $110.00 per hour for the additional hours required, selling all its excess capacity to the Audit Division. The Tax Division would still be responsible for paying the salaries of their employees.
Complete the following Income Statements. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter 0.
BOR CPAs, Inc.
Income Statements
For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y1
1
Audit Division
Tax Division
Total Company
2
Fees earned:
3
Audit fees (16 engagements)
$1,200,000.00
$1,200,000.00
4
Tax fees (45 engagements)
$708,750.00
708,750.00
5
Transfer-pricing fees
6
Expenses:
7
Variable:
8
Audit hours provided by Audit Division
180,000.00
180,000.00
9
Tax hours provided by Tax Division
236,250.00
236,250.00
10
Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff
11
Audit hours provided by Tax Division
12
Fixed expenses
50,000.00
65,500.00
115,500.00
13
Income from operations before service department charges
14
Service department charges for payroll
15
Income from operations
Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y1 results would have been had the Audit Division purchased all the excess capacity of the Tax Division, using a negotiated transfer price. The divisional managers tell you that, with the excess capacity of the Tax Division of 800 hours, the Audit Division can perform 4 more audits during the year, and the Audit Division would agree to a negotiated rate of $80.00 per hour to be paid to the Tax Division for the additional hours required, with the Tax Division selling all its excess capacity to the Audit Division. The Tax Division would still be responsible for paying the salaries of their employees.
Complete the following Income Statements. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter 0.
BOR CPAs, Inc.
Income Statements
For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y1
1
Audit Division
Tax Division
Total Company
2
Fees earned:
3
Audit fees (16 engagements)
$1,200,000.00
$1,200,000.00
4
Tax fees (45 engagements)
$708,750.00
708,750.00
5
Transfer-pricing fees
6
Expenses:
7
Variable:
8
Audit hours provided by Audit Division
180,000.00
180,000.00
9
Tax hours provided by Tax Division
236,250.00
236,250.00
10
Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff
11
Audit hours provided by Tax Division
12
Fixed expenses
50,000.00
65,500.00
115,500.00
13
Income from operations before service department charges
14
Service department charges for payroll
15
Income from operations
Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y1 results would have been had the Audit Division purchased all the excess capacity of the Tax Division, using a cost transfer price. The divisional managers tell you that, with the excess capacity of the Tax Division of 800 hours, the Audit Division can perform 4 more audits during the year, and the Audit Division would pay the Tax Division's internal hourly rate of $50.00 per hour for the additional hours required, with the Tax Division selling all its excess capacity to the Audit Division. The Tax Division would still be responsible for paying the salaries of their employees.
Complete the following Income Statements. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter 0.
BOR CPAs, Inc.
Income Statements
For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y1
1
Audit Division
Tax Division
Total Company
2
Fees earned:
3
Audit fees (16 engagements)
$1,200,000.00
$1,200,000.00
4
Tax fees (45 engagements)
$708,750.00
708,750.00
5
Transfer-pricing fees
6
Expenses:
7
Variable:
8
Audit hours provided by Audit Division
180,000.00
180,000.00
9
Tax hours provided by Tax Division
236,250.00
236,250.00
10
Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff
11
Audit hours provided by Tax Division
12
Fixed expenses
50,000.00
65,500.00
115,500.00
13
Income from operations before service department charges
14
Service department charges for payroll
15
Income from operations
You are now able to put together all the information youve collected and analyze the data. In the following table, ROI stands for Return on Investment.
Complete the following tables using the information from the other panels and selection lists provided.
Audit Division
Profit Margin
x
Investment Turnover
=
ROI
No Transfer
x
=
Market Price
x
=
Negotiated Price
x
=
Cost Price
x
=
Tax Division
Profit Margin
x
Investment Turnover
=
ROI
No Transfer
x
=
Market Price
x
=
Negotiated Price
x
=
Cost Price
x
=
BOR CPAs, Inc.
Profit Margin
x
Investment Turnover
=
ROI
No Transfer
x
=
Market Price
x
=
Negotiated Price
x
=
Cost Price
x
=
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CPA Excel Auditing And Attestation
Authors: Robert A. Prentice
1st Edition
0977165876, 978-0977165872
