Kramer Office Supplies offers a number of different products to its customers. It currently allocates its ordering and delivery costs to its residential and business customer groups on the basis of order value. However, the company has recently decided to implement activity-based costing starting in 2022 to assign these costs to customers. Key data for 2021 are as follows: Activity Volume Activity Volume Residential $ 3,640,000 $ 3,000,000 5,950 2,380 102 Total Activity Cost Activity Volume $ 6,640,000 7,600 6,200 490 Activity Base Business Sales (order value) Order processing Generating sales Sales follow-up Processing change orders Delivery Activity No. of orders No. of sales calls No. of follow-ups No. of change orders No. of deliveries 2$ 955,000 752,000 816,000 62,000 1,400,992 $ 3,985,992 1,650 3,820 388 196 194 390 5,970 3,630 9,600 Total Kramer has 1,900 residential customers and 490 business customers. Required: 1. Compute the cost per customer for residential and business customers for 2021, using the current system of cost allocation. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Cost per customer" to 2 decimal places and the rest to the nearest whole dollar amount.)
Kramer Office Supplies offers a number of different products to its customers. It currently allocates its ordering and delivery costs to its residential and business customer groups on the basis of order value. However, the company has recently decided to implement activity-based costing starting in 2022 to assign these costs to customers. Key data for 2021 are as follows: Activity Volume Activity Volume Residential $ 3,640,000 $ 3,000,000 5,950 2,380 102 Total Activity Cost Activity Volume $ 6,640,000 7,600 6,200 490 Activity Base Business Sales (order value) Order processing Generating sales Sales follow-up Processing change orders Delivery Activity No. of orders No. of sales calls No. of follow-ups No. of change orders No. of deliveries 2$ 955,000 752,000 816,000 62,000 1,400,992 $ 3,985,992 1,650 3,820 388 196 194 390 5,970 3,630 9,600 Total Kramer has 1,900 residential customers and 490 business customers. Required: 1. Compute the cost per customer for residential and business customers for 2021, using the current system of cost allocation. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Cost per customer" to 2 decimal places and the rest to the nearest whole dollar amount.)
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Transcribed Image Text:2. Assume that the 2021 data will hold for 2022. Compute the cost per customer for residential and business customers for 2022
using the proposed system of cost allocation. In doing so, calculate the overhead allocation rate for each activity, and use these rates
to assign costs to the two customer groups. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)
Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Order processing
per order
Getting sales
per sales call
Sales follow-up
per follow-up
Processing change orders
Delivery
per change order
per delivery
Residential
Business
Ordering and delivery costs applied
Number of customers
Cost per customer

Transcribed Image Text:Kramer Office Supplies offers a number of different products to its customers. It currently allocates its ordering and delivery costs to its
residential and business customer groups on the basis of order value. However, the company has recently decided to implement
activity-based costing starting in 2022 to assign these costs to customers. Key data for 2021 are as follows:
Activity
Volume
Activity
Volume
Total
Activity
Cost
Activity
Volume
$ 6,640,000
7,600
6,200
490
Activity
Activity Base
Business
$ 3,000,000
1,650
3,820
Residential
$ 3,640,000
Sales (order value)
Order processing
Generating sales
Sales follow-up
Processing change orders
Delivery
Total
$.
752,000
816,000
62,000
955,000
No. of orders
No. of sales calls
No. of follow-ups
No. of change orders
No. of deliveries
5,950
2,380
102
388
196
194
390
3,630
9,600
1,400,992
$ 3,985,992
5,970
Kramer has 1,900 residential customers and 490 business customers.
Required:
1. Compute the cost per customer for residential and business customers for 2021, using the current system of cost allocation. (Do not
round intermediate calculations. Round "Cost per customer" to 2 decimal places and the rest to the nearest whole dollar amount.)
Residential
Business
Ordering and delivery costs applied
Number of customers
Cost per customer
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