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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.80 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 10,000 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 227,500 miles
Job support Number of jobs 2,100 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $345,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 141,000
Cleaning supplies 22,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 7,000
Vehicle expenses 29,000
Office expenses 61,000
President’s compensation 85,000
Total cost $ 345,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 74 % 13 % 0 % 13 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 74 % 0 % 0 % 26 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 82 % 0 % 18 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 58 % 42 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 32 % 68 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 400 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 58-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $91.20 (400 square feet @ $22.80 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.75 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 13,500 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 142,000 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,600 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $361,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 137,000
Cleaning supplies 26,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 12,000
Vehicle expenses 40,000
Office expenses 68,000
President’s compensation 78,000
Total cost $ 361,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 76 % 14 % 0 % 10 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 68 % 0 % 0 % 32 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 79 % 0 % 21 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 56 % 44 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 26 % 74 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 600 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 60-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $136.50 (600 square feet @ $22.75 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.70 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 8,000 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 371,000 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,800 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $358,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 137,000
Cleaning supplies 33,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 16,000
Vehicle expenses 35,000
Office expenses 59,000
President’s compensation 78,000
Total cost $ 358,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 72 % 15 % 0 % 13 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 67 % 0 % 0 % 33 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 85 % 0 % 15 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 57 % 43 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 28 % 72 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 600 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 53-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $136.20 (600 square feet @ $22.70 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.90 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 7,000 hundred square feet Travel to jobs Miles driven 283,500 miles Job support Number of jobs 1,700 jobs Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable The total cost of operating the company for the year is $344,000 which includes the following costs: Wages $ 145,000 Cleaning supplies 23,000 Cleaning equipment depreciation 8,000 Vehicle expenses 27,000 Office expenses 60,000 President’s compensation 81,000 Total cost $ 344,000 Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total Wages 73 % 14 % 0 % 13 % 100 % Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 % Cleaning equipment depreciation 71 % 0 % 0 % 29 % 100 % Vehicle expenses 0 % 78 % 0 % 22 % 100 % Office expenses 0 % 0 % 59 % 41 % 100 % President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 29 % 71 % 100 % Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on. Required: 1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools. 2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools. 3. The company recently completed a 800 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N ranch—a 55-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system. 4. The revenue from the Flying N ranch was $183.20 (800 square feet @ $22.90 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.30 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 12,000 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 256,000 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,800 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $357,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 146,000
Cleaning supplies 22,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 19,000
Vehicle expenses 33,000
Office expenses 57,000
President’s compensation 80,000
Total cost $ 357,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 74 % 16 % 0 % 10 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 68 % 0 % 0 % 32 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 81 % 0 % 19 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 64 % 36 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 30 % 70 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 800 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 55-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $178.40 (800 square feet @ $22.30 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.10 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 10,000 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 380,000 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,800 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $366,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 142,000
Cleaning supplies 23,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 15,000
Vehicle expenses 37,000
Office expenses 65,000
President’s compensation 84,000
Total cost $ 366,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 80 % 14 % 0 % 6 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 66 % 0 % 0 % 34 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 77 % 0 % 23 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 61 % 39 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 30 % 70 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 600 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 50-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $132.60 (600 square feet @ $22.10 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.95 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 6,000 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 439,500 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,600 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $357,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 139,000
Cleaning supplies 28,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 17,000
Vehicle expenses 31,000
Office expenses 64,000
President’s compensation 78,000
Total cost $ 357,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 73 % 10 % 0 % 17 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 72 % 0 % 0 % 28 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 83 % 0 % 17 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 59 % 41 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 30 % 70 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 200 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 52-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $45.90 (200 square feet @ $22.95 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.45 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 13,000 hundred square feet Travel to jobs Miles driven 143,500 miles Job support Number of jobs 1,700 jobs Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable The total cost of operating the company for the year is $346,000 which includes the following costs: Wages $ 143,000 Cleaning supplies 22,000 Cleaning equipment depreciation 14,000 Vehicle expenses 31,000 Office expenses 60,000 President’s compensation 76,000 Total cost $ 346,000 Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total Wages 75 % 14 % 0 % 11 % 100 % Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 % Cleaning equipment depreciation 66 % 0 % 0 % 34 % 100 % Vehicle expenses 0 % 75 % 0 % 25 % 100 % Office expenses 0 % 0 % 65 % 35 % 100 % President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 26 % 74 % 100 % Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on. Required: 1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools. 2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools. 3. The company recently completed a 400 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 58-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system. 4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $89.80 (400 square feet @ $22.45 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.70 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned (00s) 9,500 hundred square feet
Travel to jobs Miles driven 218,500 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,600 jobs
Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $356,000 which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 137,000
Cleaning supplies 32,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 7,000
Vehicle expenses 38,000
Office expenses 69,000
President’s compensation 73,000
Total cost $ 356,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total
Wages 72 % 14 % 0 % 14 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 67 % 0 % 0 % 33 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 82 % 0 % 18 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 63 % 37 % 100 %
President’s compensation 0 % 0 % 29 % 71 % 100 %

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 200 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 59-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $45.40 (200 square feet @ $22.70 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services,...

Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $22.75 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers—particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner’s daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:  

Activity Cost Pool

Activity Measure

Activity for the Year

Cleaning carpets

Square feet cleaned (00s)

12,500

hundred square feet

Travel to jobs

Miles driven

182,500

miles

Job support

Number of jobs

2,000

jobs

Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs)

None

Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $333,000 which includes the following costs:  

Wages

$

147,000

Cleaning supplies

22,000

Cleaning equipment depreciation

6,000

Vehicle expenses

27,000

Office expenses

60,000

President’s compensation

71,000

Total cost

$

333,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities

Cleaning Carpets

Travel to Jobs

Job Support

Other

Total

Wages

77

%

11

%

0

%

12

%

100

%

Cleaning supplies

100

%

0

%

0

%

0

%

100

%

Cleaning equipment depreciation

72

%

0

%

0

%

28

%

100

%

Vehicle expenses

0

%

78

%

0

%

22

%

100

%

Office expenses

0

%

0

%

63

%

37

%

100

%

President’s compensation

0

%

0

%

34

%

66

%

100

%

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on.

Required:

1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

3. The company recently completed a 600 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch—a 59-mile round-trip journey from the company’s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.

4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $136.50 (600 square feet @ $22.75 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.

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