Emerson Evergreen, a landscaping services company, uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs. The...

Emerson Evergreen, a landscaping services company, uses an activity-based costing system
for its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data from its activity-based
costing system.

Activity Cost Pool Total Cost Total Activity
Landscaping $101,574 16,200 hours
Job support 32,724 1,800 jobs
Client support. 5,472 320 clients
Other 100,000 Not applicable
Total $239,770

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining
costs.
During the year, the Gallimore family requested 32 jobs that required a total of 192 hours of
landscaping. For this service, the Gallimore family was charged $2,200.
Required:
a. Using the activity-based costing system, compute the client margin for the Gallimore family.
Round off all calculations to the nearest whole cent.
b. Assume the company decides instead to use a traditional costing system in which ALL costs
are allocated to clients on the basis of landscaping hours. Compute the margin for the Gallimore
family. Round off all calculations to the nearest whole cent.

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Expert Solution

a) Using the Activity based costing system client margin is $ 397.30

Working:

Activity cost pool	Total cost $	Total Activity

Landscaping	101574	16200	Hours
Job Support	32724	1800	Jobs
Client Support	5472	320	clients
Other	100000	NA	Not to be considered
Total Cost	239770


Gallimore Family Order	Unit cost	Unit	Total Cost($)
No. of Jobs (32724/1800)Job support	18.18	32	581.76
Total Hours(101574/16200)Landscaping	6.27	192	1203.84
Client support(5472/320)	17.1	1	17.1
Total Variable cost			1802.7
Gallimore family charged			2200
Client Margin(2200-1802.70)			397.30

b) Assuming that company follow Traditional costing system it will be a negative margin -$641.72

Working:

Traditional costing system	Total cost $	Total Hours	Per Hour cost $

Landscaping	101574
Job Support	32724
Client Support	5472
Other	100000
Total Cost	239770	16200	14.80

Total Hours for 32 jobs	192
Per hour cost in $	14.80
Total cost	2841.718519
Gallimore family charged	2200
Client Margin/(Loss)	(641.72)

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