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Question 5 Time: 20 minutes Total: 10 marks Canadas Wonderland Inc. operates amusement parks similar to those such as Six Flags, Universal Studios, Disneyland etc.

Question 5

  • Time: 20 minutes
  • Total: 10 marks

Canadas Wonderland Inc. operates amusement parks similar to those such as Six Flags, Universal Studios, Disneyland etc. Canada Wonderlands mission is to provide high quality family entertainment that exceed guests' expectations and will create lifelong memories. To achieve this goal, Wonderland strives to provide safe, clean, friendly family environments at reasonable prices. In addition to the amusement parks, the company operates a community outreach program. Through volunteerism, it offers educational and recreational programs (e.g. after school programs for children and teenagers, employment related training for adults) and special events at its facilities.

Wonderland's president, Jerry Maguire, has asked you to lead a team of employees in developing a balanced scorecard for its parks.

Required:

For each balanced scorecard perspective identify two measures of performance that relate to Wonderland's key success factors. Include targets and an explanation of why the metric is important. What strategy is Canadas Wonderland following?

Question 6

  • Time: 20 minutes
  • Total: 12 marks

Marys Auto Shop Inc. allows its divisions to operate as autonomous units. Their results for the current year were as follows:

Sport

Terrain

City

Revenues

$1,700,000

$800,000

$6,000,000

Current assets

230,000

40,000

410,000

Capital assets

870,000

660,000

1,590,000

Current liabilities

100,000

100,000

500,000

Net operating income

242,000

52,0000

612,000

After-tax income

188,500

36,500

485,400

Weighted average cost of capital

10%

10%

10%

Required:

For each division compute (to two decimal) the:

  1. Return on sales in %

  1. Return on investment (to two decimal) based on total assets employed in %

  1. Economic value added

  1. Residual income based on net operating income

Question 7

  • Time: 10 minutes
  • Total: 6 marks

Bobs Electronics Inc. manufactures high-tech screens for computers. In June, the two production departments had budgeted allocation bases of 8,600 machine hours in Department 1 and 5,970 direct manufacturing labour hours in Department 2. The budgeted manufacturing overheads for the month were $32,000 and $27,500, respectively. For Job 101, the actual costs incurred in the two departments were as follows:

Department 1

Department 2

Direct materials purchased on account

$66,000

$106,500

Direct materials used

12,500

9,100

Direct manufacturing labour

32,500

32,200

Indirect manufacturing labour

6,600

5,400

Indirect materials used

4,500

2,850

Lease on equipment

9,750

2,250

Utilities

600

750

Job 101 incurred 1,100 machine hours in Department 1 and 400 manufacturing labour hours in Department 2. The company uses a budgeted departmental overhead rate for applying overhead to production.

  1. What is the budgeted indirect cost allocation rate for Department 1? (2 marks)

  1. What is the budgeted indirect cost allocation rate for Department 2? (2 marks)

  1. What is the total cost assigned to Job 101 based on normal costing? (2 marks)

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