1.
Give reasons for service organizations applying activity-based costing for planning their costs and resources.
2.
State the items that are required by the company to implement a time-drive activity based costing system. Compute the amount of budgeted resource cost rate of N Insurance Company.
3. and 4.
Compute the budgeted claims-
5.
Compute the labor processing time required by the company to service their revised level of service demands based on the additional information.
6.
Give reasons for the company yet to see an immediate financial improvement even after responding to the projected shift in customer mix. Provide information whether the resource spending of N Insurance Company will decrease in reply to the shift in the customer demand.
7.
Give reasons for the use of practical capacity when computing cost rates for planning purpose under an activity-based costing method.

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