Rohr Training Services (RTS) provides instruction on the use of computer software for the employees of its corporate clients. It offers courses in the clients’ offices on the clients’ equipment. The only major expense RTS incurs is instructor salaries; it pays instructors $5,400 per course taught. RTS recently agreed to offer a course of instruction to the employees of Basemera Incorporated at a price of $440 per student. Basemera estimated that 20 students would attend the course. Base your answers on the preceding information.
Required Part 1: a. Relative to the number of students in a single course, is the cost of instruction a fixed or a variable cost? Variable cost Fixed cost
b. Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students attend the course.
c1. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students).
c2. What is the percentage change in profitability? (Round your “Percentage” answers to 2 decimal places (i.e., 0.2345 should be entered as 23.45).)
d-1. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students).
d-2. What is the percentage change in profitability? (Round your “Percentage” answers to 2 decimal places (i.e., 0.2345 should be entered as 23.45).)
Part 2: The instructor has offered to teach the course for a percentage of tuition fees. Specifically, she wants $240 per person attending the class. Assume that the tuition fee remains at $440 per student.
f. Is the cost of instruction a fixed or a variable cost? Fixed cost Variable cost
g. Determine the profit, assuming that 20 students take the course.
h-1. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent increase in enrollment (i.e., enrollment increases to 22 students).
h-2. What is the percentage change in profitability?
i-1. Determine the profit, assuming a 10 percent decrease in enrollment (i.e., enrollment decreases to 18 students).
i-2. What is the percentage change in profitability?
Part 3: RTS sells a workbook with printed material unique to each course to each student who attends the course. Any workbooks that are not sold must be destroyed. Prior to the first class, RTS printed 20 copies of the books based on the client’s estimate of the number of people who would attend the course. Each workbook costs $32 and is sold to course participants for $46. This cost includes a royalty fee paid to the author and the cost of duplication.
k. Calculate the workbook cost in total and per student, assuming that 19, 21, or 23 students attempt to attend the course. (Round "Cost per student" answers to 2 decimal places (i.e., 0.2345 should be entered as 23.45).)
l. Classify the cost of workbooks as fixed or variable relative to the number of students attending the course.
Fixed cost
Variable cost