You've recently been appointed as the management accountant for Wagga Wagga Veterinary Hospital (WWVH) that offers two primary services, farm animal services and pet care services. You have been asked by the managing director to advice on any obstacles that could be impeding the effectiveness of cost management and performance management systems at WWVH. During your preliminary analysis, you have found out that providing veterinary care to farm animals requires travel to the farm animal (house calls), while veterinary care to pets generally requires that pet be brought into the clinic. As part of your discussions with senior management to determine the contribution that each of these two types of services make to overall profit, one director argues for allocating overhead using activity-based costing while the other director argues for a simpler overhead cost allocation based on direct labour hours. The directors agree to use next year's budgeted data, for analysis and comparison purposes. You have collected the following overhead data to develop the comparison:

Activity cost pool	Cost Driver	Estimated overhead ($)	Total expected cost drivers	Expected use of drivers by service
				Farm Animals	Pets
Drug treatment	Treatments	64000	4000	1800	2200
Surgery	Operations	65000	800	200	600
Travel	Mileage	28000	28000	26000	2000
Consultation	Appointments/calls	33000	3000	600	2400
Accounting/Office	Direct labour hours	30000	5000	2000	3000
Boaridng and grooming	100% pets	40000
		260 000

Following discussions with the senior management team, you've made the decision to implement both activity based costing and the balanced scorecard.

Required:

1. Comment on the comparative overhead costs assigned to the two services under both traditional costing and activity-based costing and provide a rationale for your preference for activity-based costing at WWVH (include calculations to support your recommendation) (10 marks)

2. Describe how the managers of WWVH might use this new activity-based system to identify nonvalueadded activities. (4 marks)

3. Draft a potential mission, vision, and values statement for WWVH. Explain how you decided what should be included in the statements. (6 marks)

4. Formulate a balanced score card for WWVH (Use the following template) (20 marks)

Perspectives	Strategic Objectives	Measures	Targets	Initiatives	Sustainability

5. Show the strategy map for the scorecard briefly (6 marks)