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 $ 200 per order $ 257 per custom design $ 426 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 Custom Model Design 16 2 2 2 0 2 27.50 33.00 $ 1,900 $ 456 $ 2,440 $ 574 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 24,740 < Prev 2 of 6 Next >
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 $ 200 per order $ 257 per custom design $ 426 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 Custom Model Design 16 2 2 2 0 2 27.50 33.00 $ 1,900 $ 456 $ 2,440 $ 574 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 24,740 < Prev 2 of 6 Next >
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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
$ 200 per order
$ 257 per custom design
$ 426 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
Custom
Model
Design
16
2
2
2
0
2
27.50
33.00
$ 1,900
$ 456
$ 2,440
$ 574
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
24,740
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