The Theater Arts Guild of Miami (TAG-M) employs five people in its Publication Department. These people layout pages for pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and other publications for the TAG-M productions. The pages are delivered to an outside company for printing. The company is considering an outside publication service for the layout work. The outside service is quoting a price of $20 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for 2013 is as follows:
Salaries | $290,400 |
Benefits | 66,000 |
Supplies | 35,200 |
Office expenses | 44,000 |
Office depreciation | 39,600 |
Computer depreciation | 26,400 |
Total | $501,600 |
The department expects to layout 22,000 pages for 2012. The computers used by the department have an estimated residual value of $17,600. The Publication Department office space would be used for future administrative needs, if the department's function were purchased from the outside.
prepare a differential analysis dated December 15, 2012, to determine whether TAG-M should layout pages internally (Alternative 1) or purchase layout services from the outside (Alternative 2). If an amount is zero, enter zero "0".
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