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Assigning Cost of Resources to Activities, Unbundling the General Ledger
Golding Bank provided the following data about its resources and activities for its checking account process:
Resources | Activities | Clerical Hours | |||||
Supervision | $80,000 | Processing accounts | 9,360 | ||||
Phone and supplies | 95,000 | Issuing statements | 4,800 | ||||
Salaries | 265,000 | Processing transactions | 6,720 | ||||
Computer | 23,000 | Answering customer inquiries | 3,120 | ||||
Total | $463,000 | Total | 24,000 |
Required:
1. Prepare a work distribution matrix for the five primary activities. If an answer is zero, enter "0".
Golding Bank | ||
Percentage of Time on Each Activity | ||
Activity | Supervisor | Clerks |
Supervising clerks | % | % |
Processing accounts | ||
Issuing statements | ||
Processing transactions | ||
Answering customer inquiries |
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1. A work distribution matrix simply identifies the Amount of labor consumed by each activity. The supervising ratio is given. The remaining four ratios are calculated using the clerical hrs. ÷ total processing hours
2. Calculate the cost of each activity. If required, round your answers to the nearest dollar.
Activity | Total |
Supervising clerks | $ |
Processing accounts | $ |
Issuing statements | $ |
Processing transactions | $ |
Answering customer inquiries | $ |
3. If the cost of the supervising activity is assigned to the other four activities, what is the final cost of these four primary activities? If required, round your answers to the nearest dollar.
Processing accounts | $ |
Issuing statements | $ |
Processing transactions | $ |
Answering customer inquiries | $ |
1.
Golding Bank | ||
Percentage of Time on Each Activity | ||
Activity | Supervisor | Clerks |
Supervising clerks (2000/2000) | 100% | 0% |
Processing accounts (9360/24000) | 0% | 39% |
Issuing statements (4800/24000) | 0% | 20% |
Processing transactions (6720/24000) | 0% | 28% |
Answering customer inquiries (3120/24000) | 0% | 13% |
2.
Activity | Total |
Supervising clerks | $ 44 |
Processing accounts | $ 12 |
Issuing statements | $ 13 |
Processing transactions | $ 15 |
Answering customer inquiries | $ 32 |
Working:
Activities | ||||||
Resources | Supervising clerks | Processing accounts | Issuing statements | Processing transactions | Answering customer inquiries | Total |
Supervision | 80000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80000 |
Phone and supplies (30% x 95000/4);(70% x $95000) | 7125 | 7125 | 7125 | 7125 | 66500 | 95000 |
Salaries (39%, 20%, 28%, 13%) | 0 | 103350 | 53000 | 74200 | 34450 | 265000 |
Computer (20%,80%) | 0 | 0 | 4600 | 18400 | 0 | 23000 |
Total | 87125 | 110475 | 64725 | 99725 | 100950 | 463000 |
Divide by number of hours | 2000 | 9360 | 4800 | 6720 | 3120 | |
Cost of each activity $ | 44 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 32 |
3.
Processing accounts | $ 144,454 |
Issuing statements | $ 82,150 |
Processing transactions | $ 124,120 |
Answering customer inquiries | $ 112,276 |
Working:
Processing accounts | Issuing statements | Processing transactions | Answering customer inquiries | Total | |
Activity costs | 110475 | 64725 | 99725 | 100950 | 375875 |
Allocation of cost of supervising activity (39%, 20%, 28%, 13%) | 33979 | 17425 | 24395 | 11326 | 87125 |
Total | 144454 | 82150 | 124120 | 112276 | 463000 |