Cost Accounting Budget DrStephanie
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.
Program Area
Costs
Administration
Salaries:
Administrator
$60,000
Assistant
$35,000
Two Secretaries
$42,000
Supplies
$35,000
Advertising and promotion
$9,000
Professional meetings/dues
$14,000
Purchased Services:
Accounting and billing
$15,000
Custodial
$13,000
Security
$12,000
Consulting
$10,000
Community Mental Health Services
Salaries (two social workers)
$46,000
Transportation
$10,000
Outpatient mental health treatment
Salaries:
Psychiatrist
$86,000
Two Social Workers
$70,000
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.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS
ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper…not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.
BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 4-5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.