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Wardlaw Company, ( It is the same company!) a mid-sizedengineering firm operates in mid-town Toronto from a suiteof offices on the fifth floor of a high-rise office building .

 

All professional personnel - Engineers, Computer Specialists,Surveyors, Managerial/Tax Accountants, Sales and Adminpersonnel are on fixed salary - Annual Payroll, all fixed .

 

Fixed Costs:

                 

                  Rent:     10,000 Sq Meters                                                          $ 8,250,000

                  Salaries all fixed:                                                                          30,000,000

                  Engineering/Survey Equipment                                                   1,250,000                                     

                  Marketing - Professional/Industry journals                                  750,000

                  Computers - Hardware                                                                 8,750,000

 

             Annual Variable Costs include:

                     Marketing/Travel  - Client focused                                         $1,300,000

                     Blueprinting/Design- Job Specific                                           $2,450,000

                     Other Supplies                                                                           $1,250,000

                     Software                                                                                     $1,285,000      

                                                                     

FixedCosts:

Rent:10,000SqMeters$8,250,000

 

Salariesallfixed:30,000,000

 

Engineering/Survey

Equipment1,250,000

 

Marketing-Professional/Industryjournals750,000

Computers-Hardware8,750,000

 

Annual Variable Costs include:

Marketing/Travel- Clientfocused$1,300,000

 

Blueprinting/Design-JobSpecific$2,450,000OtherSupplies$1,250,000

Software 1,285,000 

 

 

Wardlaw has hired your managerial accounting firm to design a Project Management System.      

            Required:  

            Suggest methods for charging both fixed and  Variable costs.  Your answer must address - Cost behavior:

  1. Cost drivers
  2. Direct Costs
  3. Indirect Costs
  4. Client Profile - Large vs small
  5. Client focused charges
  6. Distance/mileage charges

Non-financial:

  1. Identify Non-financial issues to be considered

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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