Required: Using the company's activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters. Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Loss amounts should be entered with a minus sign.
Required: Using the company's activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters. Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Loss amounts should be entered with a minus sign.
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Transcribed Image Text:Thermal Rising, Incorporated, makes paragliders for sale through specialty sporting goods stores. The company has a standard
paraglider model, but also makes custom-designed paragliders. Management 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
$ 198 per order
$ 267 per custom design
$ 434 per customer
Management wants to calculate the profitability of a particular customer, Big Sky Outfitters, which ordered the following products over
the last 12 months:
Number of gliders
Number of orders
Number of custom designs
Direct labor-hours per glider
Selling price per glider
Direct materials cost per glider
Standard
Model
Custom Design
12
2
2
2
0
2
29.50
$ 1,800
32.00
$ 472
$ 2,490
$ 576
The company's direct labor rate is $20 per hour.
Required:
Using the company's activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters.
Note: 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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