Consider the following scenario:
Dr. Stephanie White, the Chief Administrator of Uptown Clinic, a community mental health agency, is concerned about the dilemma of coping with reduced budgets next year and into the foreseeable future but increasing demand for services. To plan for reduced budgets, she must first identify where costs can be cut or reduced and still keep the agency functioning. Below are some data from the past year.
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Program Area
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Costs
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Administration
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Salaries:
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Administrator
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$60,000
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Assistant
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$35,000
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Two Secretaries
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$42,000
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Supplies
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$35,000
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Advertising and promotion
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$9,000
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Professional meetings/dues
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$14,000
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Purchased Services:
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Accounting and billing
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$15,000
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Custodial
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$13,000
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Security
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$12,000
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Consulting
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$10,000
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Community Mental Health Services
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Salaries (two social workers)
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$46,000
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Transportation
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$10,000
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Outpatient mental health treatment
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Salaries:
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Psychiatrist
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$86,000
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Two Social Workers
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$70,000
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In an Excel spreadsheet:
- Provide a dollar range of costs to reduce budgets (worst and best case analysis).
- She needs to cut $94,000 in cost. Prioritize those cuts that can be made without impacting the operation or quality care of the organization.
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In addition to the Excel spreadsheet required to support your responses, you must prepare an APA formatted paper that will address the following:
- Describe how managerial accounting is different from cost accounting.
- Describe the lean production philosophy.
- Compare and contrast accounting principles in lean production to those of typical production.
- Describe how you would advise Dr. White to prepare for reduced budgets.