Sagar Foam Products, Incorporated, makes foam seat cushions for the automotive and aerospace industries. Thecompany's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools, which are listed below along with their activitymeasures and activity rates:Activity Cost PoolSupporting direct laborBatch processingOrder processingCustomer serviceActivity MeasureNumber of direct labor-hoursNumber of batchesNumber of ordersNumber of customersActivity Rate$12 per direct labor-hour$ 87 per batch$ 288 per order$ 2,613 per customerThe company just completed a single order from Interstate Trucking for 2,300 custom seat cushions. The order wasproduced in four batches. Each seat cushion required 0.7 direct labor-hours. The selling price was $142.30 per unit,the direct materials cost was $109 per unit, and the direct labor cost was $14.90 per unit. This was InterstateTrucking's only order during the year.Required:Calculate the customer margin on sales to Interstate Trucking for the year.Interstate TruckingCustomer Margin-ABC AnalysisCosts:Customer margin

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Scholfield Enterprises makes a variety of products that it sells to other businesses. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools for assigning costs to products and customers. Details concerning that activity-based costing system are listed below: Activity Cost Pool Supporting assembly Processing batches. Processing orders. Serving customers. Activity Measure Direct labor-hours (DLHS) Number of batches. Number of orders Number of customers Activity Rate $ 6.55 per DLH $ 138.20 per batch $ 52.60 per order $ 1,191.00 per customer The cost of serving customers, $1,191.00 per customer, is the cost of serving a customer for one year. Latif Corporation buys only one of the company's products which Scholfield Enterprises sells for $15.60per unit. Last year Latif Corporation ordered a total of 1,100units of this product in 2orders. To fill the orders, 7batches were required. The direct materials cost is $7.85per unit and the direct labor cost is $1.90per unit.…
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