Required: Using the company's activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Loss amounts should be entered with a minus sign.)
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
![Thermal Rising, Inc., makes paragliders for sale through specialty sporting goods stores. The company has a standard paraglider
model, but also makes custom-designed paragliders. Management has designed an activity-based costing system with the
following activity cost pools and activity rates:
Activity Cost Pool
Supporting direct labor
Order processing
Custom design processing
Customer service
Activity Rate
$ 20 per direct labor-hour
$ 192 per order
$ 268 per custom design
$ 428 per customer
Management would like an analysis of the profitability of a particular customer, Big Sky Outfitters, which has ordered the following
products over the last 12 months:
Standard Custom
Model
Design
Number of gliders
15
Number of orders
2
Number of custom designs
Direct labor -hours per glider
Selling price per glider
Direct materials cost per glider
27.50
32.00
$ 1,850 $ 2,420
458 $
578
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Standard Custom
Model
Design
15
Number of gliders
Number of orders
Number of custom designs
Direct labor-hours per glider
Selling price per glider
Direct materials cost per glider
27.50
32.00
$ 1,850 $ 2,420
$
458 $
578
The company's direct labor rate is $22 per hour.
Required:
Using the company's activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters. (Round your intermediate
calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Loss amounts should be entered with a minus sign.)
Customer margin
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