Mastery Problem: Evaluating Decentralized Operations BOR CPAS, Inc. BOR CPAS, Inc. is a closely held corporation owned by three stockholders who used the initials of their last names to form the corporation's name: Cyrus Bailey, John Ogden, and Samuel Rogers. The firm's Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) perform audits of both public companies and privately owned companies. BOR's 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 support department allocations. The following chart shows some basic data for the company: $100 $60 Hourly market rate for staff (the price the company would have to pay from an outside contractor for staff services) Average hourly cost rate for staff (the average price the company pays to its staff) Number of paychecks issued by Audit Division Number of paychecks issued by Tax Division Total expense for Payroll Office 110 340 $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. $5,000,000 Payroll 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 Rates per payroll check Support Department Allocations Division Audit Division 110 x Tax Division Performance Evaluation A profit center manager has the responsibility and authority for making decisions that affect revenues and costs and, thus, profits. The manager of a profit center does not make decisions concerning the fixed assets invested in the center. Responsibility accounting for profit centers such as the Audit Division and Tax Division take the form of income statements, which should include only controllable revenues and controllable expenses. Although it is not technically a decentralized unit, BOR CPAs, Inc. as a whole may be considered as an investment center. Thus, Mr. Bailey is also interested in evaluating the performance of the company as a whole. Two performance measures that are used at the investment center level are return on investment and residual income. Mr. Bailey would like to use the DuPont formula, composed of profit margin and investment turnover, to break down the return on investment, in order to evaluate each division. At the company level, Mr. Bailey would like to use return on investment to evaluate the overall performance of the company and its investment decisions with regard to each division. Answer the following questions (1) and (2). 1. What is the most likely reason Mr. Bailey chose the DuPont formula to evaluate the divisions? a. Mr. Bailey wants to focus on whether the profit centers are spending in accordance with their budgets. b. Mr. Bailey believes that the investment turnover will provide a good assessment of each division's profitability. C. Mr. Bailey would like to analyze differences in the return on investment across divisions. 2. What is the most likely reason Mr. Bailey chose return on investment to evaluate the company as a whole? a. Mr. Bailey would like to determine which division has the highest net income. b. Return on investment will allow Mr. Bailey to measure the income (return) on each dollar invested in the divisions, and decide where to invest additional assets or expand operations. b Feedback Check My Work No Transfer 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 Divisional Income Statements with your data from the Payroll. No Transfer 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 Divisional Income Statements with your data from the Payroll. BOR CPAs, Inc. Divisional Income Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 2018 Audit Division Tax Division Total Company Fees earned: $900,000 $900,000 Audit fees (12 engagements) Tax fees (45 engagements) Transfer pricing fees $708,750 708,750 0 Expenses: Variable: Audit hours provided by Audit Division (216,000) (216,000) (283,500) Tax hours provided by Tax Division (283,500) Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff (48,000) (48,000) Audit hours provided by Tax Division 0 0 (50,000) (65,500) (115,500) Fixed expenses Operating income before support department allocations $634,000 $311,750 $945,750 Support department allocations for payroll 7,150 22,100 29,250 Operating income 626,850 289,650 916,500 Feedback Check My Work Market Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $100 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "O". BOR CPAs, Inc. Market Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $100 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "o". BOR CPAs, Inc. Divisional Income Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 2018 Audit Division Tax Division Total Company Fees earned: $1,200,000 $1,200,000 Audit fees (16 engagements) Tax fees (45 engagements) $708,750 708,750 Transfer-pricing fees 48,000 X Expenses: Variable: (216,000) Audit hours provided by Audit Division Tax hours provided by Tax Division Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff (216,000) (283,500) (283,500) Audit hours provided by Tax Division Fixed expenses (50,000) (65,500) (115,500) Operating income before support department allocations Support department allocations for payroll Operating income 854,850 x Feedback Check My Work Negotiated Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $90 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "0". Negotiated Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $90 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "O". BOR CPAs, Inc. Divisional Income Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y8 Audit Division Tax Division Total Company Fees earned: $1,200,000 Audit fees (16 engagements) Tax fees (45 engagements) Transfer-pricing fees $1,200,000 708,750 $ 708,750 Expenses: Variable: (216,000) (216,000) Audit hours provided by Audit Division Tax hours provided by Tax Division (283,500) (283,500) Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff Audit hours provided by Tax Division Fixed expenses (50,000) (65,500) (115,500) Operating income before support department allocations $ $ Support department allocations for payroll Operating income s $ Feedback Check My Work Compute the price charged by the Tax Division to the Audit Division, and both the transfer pricing fees and cost to the Tax Division of the sale of its excess hours. Be sure to revise the Total Company, Operating income before support department allocations, and Operating income totals using your revised amounts. Cost Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $60 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "O". non cnar In Cost Transfer Price Mr. Bailey asks that you prepare Divisional Income Statements showing what 20Y8 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 $60 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 Divisional Income Statements. If there is no amount or an amount is zero, enter "0". BOR CPAs, Inc. Divisional Income Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y8 Audit Division Tax Division Total Company Fees earned: $1,200,000 $1,200,000 Audit fees (16 engagements) Tax fees (45 engagements) $708,750 708,750 Transfer pricing fees Expenses: Variable: Audit hours provided by Audit Division (216,000) (216,000) Tax hours provided by Tax Division (283,500) (283,500) Excess capacity hours paid to salaried staff Audit hours provided by Tax Division Fixed expenses (50,000) (65,500) (115,500) Operating income before support department allocations s $ Support department allocations for payroll Operating income Feedback Check My Work Compute the price charged by the Tax Division to the Audit Division, and both the transfer pricing fees and cost to the Tax Division of the sale of its excess hours. Be sure to revise the Total Company, Operating income before support department allocations, and Operating income totals using your revised amounts. Analysis You are now able to put together all the information you've 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 requirements and selection lists provided. Audit Division