Fifth edition Alnoor Bhimani Charles T. Horngren Srikant M. Datar Madhav V. Rajan Farah Ahamed



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Solutions to exercises
5.10
Alternative allocation bases fora professional services firm.
(15 min)
1


Direct professional time
Support services
Amount
Client
Rate per
hour
Number
of hours
Total
Rate
Total
billed to
client
(1) (2)
(3)
(4)
= (2)
× (3)
(5) (6)
= (4)
× (5)
(7)
= (4) + (6)
FORTUNE
PLASSANS
Raquin
Rozerot Bernard

€500 120 80

15 3
22

€7,500 360 1,760

30% of (4)
30% of (4)
30% of (4)

€2,250 108 528

€9,750 468 2,288
€12,506 AU BONHEUR
DES DAMES
Raquin
Rozerot Bernard

€500 120 80

2 8
30

€1,000 960 2,400

30% of (4)
30% of (4)
30% of (4)

€300 288 720

€1,300 1,248 3,120
€5,668
2


Direct professional time
Support services
Amount
Client
Rate per
hour
Number
of hours
Total
Rate
Total
billed to
client
(1) (2) (3) (4)
= (2)
× (3)
(5) (6)
= (3)
× (5)
(7)
= (4)+(6)
FORTUNE
PLASSANS
Raquin
Rozerot Bernard

€500 120 80

15 3
22

€7,500 360 1,760

€50 per hour.
€50 per hour.
€50 per hour.

€750 150 1,100

€8,250 510 2,860
€11,620 AU BONHEUR
DES DAMES
Raquin
Rozerot Bernard

€500 120 80

2 8
30

€1,000 960 2,400

€50 per hour.
€50 per hour.
€50 per hour.

€100 400 1,500

€1,100 1,360 3,900
€6,360


Bhimani, Horngren, Datar and Rajan, Management and Cost Accounting, 5
th
Edition, Instructor’s Manual
© Pearson Education Limited 2012
Requirement 1 Requirement
2
Fortune Plassans
€12,506
€11,620 Au Bonheur des Dames
5,668 6,360
€18,174
€17,980 Both clients use 40 hours of professional labour time. However, Fortune Plassans uses a higher proportion of Raquin’s time (15 hours, which attracts the highest support-services charge.
3
Assume that the Germinal Group uses a cause-and-effect criterion when choosing the allocation base for support services. You could use several pieces of evidence to determine whether professional labour costs or hours is the driver of support-service costs
a Interviews with personnel
. For example, staff in the major cost categories in support services could be interviewed to determine whether Raquin requires more support per hour than, say, Bernard. The professional labour costs allocation base implies that an hour of Raquin’s time requires 6.25 (€500 ÷ €80) times more support service Euros than does an hour of Bernard’s time.
b Analysis of tasks undertaken for selected clients
. For example, if computer- related costs area sizeable part of support costs, you could determine if there was a systematic relationship between the percentage involvement of professionals with high billing rates on cases and the computer resources consumed for those cases.

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