Required: 1 Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools. 2 Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.
Required: 1 Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools. 2 Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.
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Transcribed Image Text:Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, famly-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For Its services, the company has
always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee Is $22.25 per hundred square feet. However,
there Is some question about whether the company Is actually making any money on Jobs for some customers-particularly those
located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner's daughter, home for the summer from college, has
suggested Investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of
four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:
Activity Cost Pool
Cleaning carpets
Travel to jobs
Job support
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle
capacity costs)
Activity Measure
Square feet cleaned (90s)
Activity for the Year
-13,500 hundred square feet
300,000 miles
1,700 jobs
Miles driven
Number of jobs
None
Not applicable
The total cost of operating the company for the year is $347,000 which Includes the following costs:
24
Wages
Cleaning supplies
cleaning equipment depreciation
Vehicle expenses
144,000
32,000
8,000
26, 000
56, 000
office expenses
81, eee
$ 347, 000
President's compensation
Total cost
Resource consumption is distributed across the activitles as follows:
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning
Travel
Carpets
78%
to Jobs
11%
Job Support Other
11%
Total
wages
Cleaning supplies
Cleaning equipment depreciation
Vehicle expenses
Office expenses
President's compensation
0%
1e0%
100%
1ee%
70%
0%
0%
30%
1e0%
81%
19%
100%
0% e%
64%
36%
0%
33%
67%
100%
Job support consists of recetving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling Jobs. billing, resolving sues, and so
on.
Required:
1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.
2 Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.
3 The company recently completed a 200 square foot carpet-cleaning Job at the Flying N Ranch-a 55-mile round-trip journey from
the company's offices In Bozeman. Compute the cost of this Job using the activity-based costing system.
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