Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors-home nursing, Meals on Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow: Total $927,000 567,100 419.900 Home Nursing $267,500 124,200 143,600 Meals on Wheels $412,000 217,500 194,500 House- keeping $247,200 165,000 81,800 Revenues Variable expenses Contribution margin Fixed expensest Depreciation Liability insurance Program administrators salaries General administrative overhead Total fixed pense Operating income (los) 69,140 43,119 116,950 185,400 414,500 8,240 20,450 40,750 53,560 123000 $ 20,00 40,450 7.300 38,450 B2 400 168, 600 $ 25,900 20,450 15,360 37,750 49,440 123,000 $(41,200 Allocated on the basis of program revenues The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization's finances and considers the operating income of $5,300 last year to be razor-thin (Last year's results were very similar to the results for previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future) She feels that the organization should be building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the housekeeping program, Proy 1 of 5 !!! Next U UUU Uleidt UVID UI UISLUHNY HOUSEKEEP program, The depreciation in the housekeeping category is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment fror to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. Depreciation charges assume ze salvage value. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were dropped, but th llability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided. Required: 1-a. Compute the change in net operating income for the company as a whole If housekeeping program be discontinued. 1 ses 1-b. Should the housekeeping program be discontinued? Yes NA 1-b. Should the housekeeping program be discontinued? 0 Yes 2. Would a segmented income statement format be more useful to management in assessing the long run financial viability of the various services? Yes
