Problem:
ABC, health care. Uppervale Health Center runs two programs: drug addict rehabilitation and aftercare (counseling and support of patients after release from a mental hospital). The center's budget for 2010 follows:
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Professional salaries:
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4 physicians x $150,000
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$600,000
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12 psychologists x $75,000
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900,000
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16 nurses x $30,000
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480,000
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$1,980,000
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Medical supplies
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220,000
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Rent and clinic maintenance
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126,000
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Administrative costs to manage patient charts, food, laundry
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440,000
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Laboratory services
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84,000
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Total
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$2,850,000
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Muriel Clayton, the director of the center, is keen on determining the cost of each program. Clayton compiled the following data describing employee allocations to individual programs:
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Drug
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Aftercare
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Total Employees
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Physicians
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4
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4
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Psychologists
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4
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8
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12
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Nurses
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6
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10
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16
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Clayton has recently become aware of activity-based costing as a method to refine costing systems. She asks her accountant, Huey Deluth, how she should apply this technique. Deluth obtains the following budgeted information for 2010:
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Drug
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Aftercare
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Total
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Square feet of space occupied by each program
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9,000
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12,000
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21,000
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Patient-years of service
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50
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60
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110
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Number of laboratory tests
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1,400
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700
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2,100
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1. a. Selecting cost-allocation bases that you believe are the most appropriate for allocating indirect costs to programs, calculate the budgeted indirect cost rates for medical supplies; rent and clinic maintenance; administrative costs for patient charts, food, and laundry; and laboratory services.
b. Using an activity-based costing approach to cost analysis, calculate the budgeted cost of each program and the budgeted cost per patient-year of the drug program.
c. What benefits can Uppervale Health Center obtain by implementing the ABC system?
2. What factors, other than cost, do you think Uppervale Health Center should consider in allocating resources to its programs?