The U.S. Military uses a significant amount of contractors tofill roles instead of military personal. What benefits are therefor the military in contracting out a significant amount of work?How can incremental analysis be used in making the decision tooutsource or use military personal. How can incremental analysis beapplied to business situations to outsource or not?
The U.S. Military uses a significant amount of contractors tofill roles instead of military personal. What benefits are therefor the military in contracting out a significant amount of work?How can incremental analysis be used in making the decision tooutsource or use military personal. How can incremental analysis beapplied to business situations to outsource or not?
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Make-or-Buy Decision for a Service Company
The Theater Arts Guild of Dallas (TAG-D) employs five people in its Publication Department. These people lay out pages for pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and other publications for the TAG-D 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 quoting a price of $12 per layout page. The budget for the Publication Department for the current year is as follows:
| Salaries | $174,200 |
| Benefits | 39,600 |
| Supplies | 21,100 |
| Office expenses | 26,400 |
| Office depreciation | 23,800 |
| Computer depreciation | 15,800 |
| Total | $300,900 |
The department expects to lay out 22,000 pages for the current year. The Publication Department office space and equipment would be used for future administrative needs, if the departmentâs function were purchased from the outside.
a. Prepare a differential analysis dated February 22 to determine whether TAG-D should lay out pages internally (Alternative 1) or purchase layout services from the outside (Alternative 2). If an amount is zero, enter "0". For those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign.
| Differential Analysis | |||
| Lay out Pages Internally (Alt. 1) or Purchase Lay out Services (Alt. 2) | |||
| February 22 | |||
| Lay out Pages Internally (Alternative 1) | Purchase Lay out Services (Alternative 2) | Differential Effect on Income (Alternative 2) | |
| Selling Price | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Costs: | |||
| Purchase price of lay out work | $ | $ | $ |
| Salaries | |||
| Benefits | |||
| Supplies | |||
| Office expenses | |||
| Office depreciation | |||
| Computer depreciation | |||
| Income (loss) | $ | $ | $ |
b. The benefit from using an outside service is shown to be than performing the lay out work internally. The fixed costs (depreciation expenses) in the budget are to the decision. Thus, the work should purchased from the outside on a strictly financial basis.
c. Before electing to the five employees, the guild should consider the of the decision.
