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Chapter 7.A, Problem 3E
EXERCISE 7A-3 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing LO 7-6, LO 7-7
Refer to the data in Exercises 7A-1 and 7A-2. Now assume that Saratoga Company would like to answer the following “what if’ question using its time-driven activity-based costing system: Assuming our estimated activity demands for all jobs in the next period will be as shown below, how will this affect our
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- How will these revised activity demands affect the total Purchasing Department labor costs assigned to Job X, Job Y, and Job Z? No calculations are necessary
- Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratoga's used capacity in minutes.
- Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratoga's unused capacity in minutes.
- Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratoga’s unused capacity in number of employees. (Do not round your answer to a whole number.)
- Based on the revised activity demands, calculate the impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand. (Be sure to round your potential adjustment in the number of employees to a whole number.)
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