Question

MobileCash Corporation operates a fleet of armoured cars that make scheduled pickups and deliveries for its customers. The company is implementing an ABC system that has four activity cost pools: Travel, Pickup and Delivery, Customer Service, and Other. The activity measures are kilometres for the Travel cost pool, number of pickups and deliveries for the Pickup and Delivery cost pool, and number of customers for the Customer Service cost pool. The Other cost pool has no activity measure. The following costs will be assigned using the ABC system:

Driver and guard wages	$	867,000
Vehicle operating expense		288,000
Vehicle depreciation		159,000
Customer representative salaries and expenses		189,000
Office expenses		44,500
Administrative expenses		358,000
Total cost	$	1,905,500

The distribution of resource consumption across the activity cost pools is as follows:

	Travel			Pickup and Delivery			Customer Service			Other			Totals
Driver and guard wages		40	%		45	%		10	%		5	%		100	%
Vehicle operating expense		70	%		10	%		0	%		20	%		100	%
Vehicle depreciation		75	%		5	%		0	%		20	%		100	%
Customer representative salaries     and expenses		0	%		0	%		85	%		15	%		100	%
Office expenses		0	%		20	%		30	%		50	%		100	%
Administrative expenses		0	%		5	%		50	%		45	%		100	%

Required:

Carry out the first-stage allocations of costs to activity cost pools. (Do not leave any empty spaces; input a 0 wherever it is required.)

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