Question

Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors—home nursing, Meals on Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow:

	Total			Home Nursing			Meals on Wheels			House- keeping
Revenues	$	981,000		$	283,400		$	436,000		$	261,600
Variable expenses		541,300			132,600			232,500			176,200
Contribution margin		439,700			150,800			203,500			85,400
Fixed expenses:
Depreciation		71,420			8,720			41,350			21,350
Liability insurance		45,330			21,350			7,900			16,080
Program administrators’ salaries		120,850			42,250			39,350			39,250
General administrative overhead*		196,200			56,680			87,200			52,320
Total fixed expenses		433,800			129,000			175,800			129,000
Operating income (loss)	$	5,900		$	21,800		$	27,700		$	(43,600	)

*Allocated on the basis of program revenues.

     The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization’s finances and considers the operating income of $5,900 last year to be razor-thin. (Last year’s results were very similar to the results for previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future.) She feels that the organization should be building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the
housekeeping program.

     The depreciation in the housekeeping category is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment from job to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. Depreciation charges assume zero salvage value. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were dropped, but the liability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided.

Required:

1-a. Compute the change in net operating income for the company as a whole if housekeeping program be discontinued.

Answer 1

1a
	Current Total	Total If house keeping is Dropped	Difference: Net Operating Income
Sales	981000	719400	-261600
Variable expenses	541300	365100	176200
Contribution margin	439700	354300	-85400
Fixed expenses:
Depreciation	71420	71420	0
Liability insurance	45330	29250	16080
Program administrators’ salaries	120850	81600	39250
General administrative overhead	196200	196200	0
Total fixed expenses	433800	378470	55330
Net operating income (loss)	5900	-24170	-30070
Decrease in net operating income by 30070