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Scotia Health Consultants Ltd provides advice to clients in medical
Scotia Health Consultants Ltd provides advice to clients in medical, dietary and fitness matters
by offering consultation with specialist staff.
(ii) Clients are charged a fee per consultation at the rate of: medical £75; dietary £50 and fitness
£50.
(iii) Health foods are recommended and provided only to dietary clients at an average cost to
the company of £10 per consultation. Clients are charged for such health foods at cost plus 100
per cent mark-up.
(iv) Each customer enquiry incurs a variable cost of £3, whether or not it is converted into a
consultation.
(v) Consultants are each paid a fixed annual salary as follows: medical £40 000; dietary
£28000; fitness £25 000.
Actual results for the year to 31 May incorporate the following additional information:
to the company per consultation was achieved through a rationalization of the range of foods
made available.
(iii) Medical salary costs were altered through dispensing with the services of two full-time
consultants and sub-contracting outside specialists as required. A total of 1900 consultations
were sub-contracted to outside specialists who were paid £50 per consultation.
(iv) Fitness costs were increased by £80 000 through the hire of equipment to allow
sophisticated cardiovascular testing of clients.
(v) New computer software has been installed to provide detailed records and scheduling of all
(a) Prepare a statement showing the financial results for the year to 31 May in tabular format.
This should show:
(i) The budget and actual gross margin for each type of consultation and for the company;
(iii) The budget and actual margin (£) per consultation for each type of consultation.
(Expenditure for each expense heading should be shown in (i) and (ii) as relevant.)
(b) Suggest ways in which each of the undernoted performance measures (1 to 5) could be
used to supplement the financial results calculated in (a). You should include relevant
quantitative analysis from the Appendix below for each performance measure:
4. Quality; 5. Innovation.
Client consultations include those carried out by outside specialists. There are now four full-time
consultants carrying out the remainder of client consultations.
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