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Hong Kong Health Consultants Company provided dietary service to clients by offering consultation with specialist staff.

The budgeting information for the year 2019 is as follows:

Dietary

Company

Service fee charged to client

$750 per consultation

Cost of dietary material*

$60 per consultation

Fixed annual salary

$300,000 per consultant

Variable cost per enquiry#

$15 per enquiry

Commission to staff

$20 per consultation

Dietary fixed costs

$540,000 for a year

Other fixed corporate costs

$1,000,000 for a year

*Assume all client of dietary will be given a pack of dietary material each consultation. # All enquiries are handled by the companys trained staff who is paid $15 per enquiry.

Only a small portion of enquiry will turn up for a charged consultation.

Actual results for the year 2019 incorporate the following additional information:

  1. The company offered 8% discount of service fee charged to all clients during 2019.

  1. The cost of dietary materials increased to $65 per consultation.

  1. The actual salary of full-time consultants was lowered than the budget because three experienced consultants had left the company since beginning of the year. Each full- time consultant is planned to consult 1,500 clients per year.

  1. The company can take part-time consultants at a cost of $260 per consultation to handle increasing demand. A total of 4,950 consultations were carried out by the part- time consultants in 2019.

  1. Dietary fixed costs were increased by $80,000 per year through the hire of equipment to provide additional service to clients free of charge.

  1. The actual corporate costs increased because a new computer software has been installed to provide detailed health records and scheduling of all client. The operating cost is $50,000 per year.

Appendix

Statistics relating to the year of 2019 is provided below:

Budget

Actual

Total client enquiries:

New clients

30,000

44,000

Repeat clients

20,000

16,000

Total

50,000

60,000

Number of charged consultations:

New clients

8,000

10,800

Repeat clients

10,000

9,000

Total

18,000

19,800

Number of consultants employed:

12

9

Number of client complaints:

180

495

Prepare income statements showing the financial results of 2019 in tabular format (i) Budgeted, (ii) Actual.

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