The theater arts guild of dallas (tag-d) employs five people in its publication department. these people lay out pages for pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and other publications for the tag-d productions. the pages are delivered to an outside company for printing. the company is considering an outside publication service for the layout work. the outside service quoting a price of $19 per layout page. the budget for the publication department for the current year is as follows: salaries $225,700 benefits 51,300 supplies 27,400 office expenses 34,200 office depreciation 30,800 computer depreciation 20,500 total $389,900 the department expects to lay out 18,000 pages for the current year. the publication department office space and equipment would be used for future administrative needs, if the department’s function were purchased from the outside.
prepare a differential analysis dated february 22 to determine whether tag-d should lay out pages internally (alternative 1) or purchase layout services from the outside (alternative 2). if an amount is zero, enter "0". for those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign.