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

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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 $22.25 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customersparticularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owners daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools seemed to be adequate. 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 335,000 miles
Job support Number of jobs 1,800 jobs
Other (costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs) None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $346,000, which includes the following costs:

Wages $ 150,000
Cleaning supplies 29,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation 9,000
Vehicle expenses 30,000
Office expenses 58,000
Presidents compensation 70,000
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 79 % 15 % 0 % 6 % 100 %
Cleaning supplies 100 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 100 %
Cleaning equipment depreciation 69 % 0 % 0 % 31 % 100 %
Vehicle expenses 0 % 76 % 0 % 24 % 100 %
Office expenses 0 % 0 % 61 % 39 % 100 %
Presidents 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.

Cleaning Job
carpets Travel to jobs Support other Total
Wages
Cleaning Supplies
Cleaning Equipment depreciation
Vehicle Expenses
Office Expenses
Presidents Compensation
Total Cost

2. Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate
Cleaning Carpets Per Hundered Square Feet
Travel To jobs Per mile
Job support Per Job
3.

The company recently completed a 4 hundred square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N rancha 58.00-mile round-trip journey from the companys offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system. (Round your intermediate and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Cost OF The Job:

4.

The revenue from the Flying N ranch was $89.00 (4 hundred square feet at $22.25 per hundred square feet). Prepare a report showing the margin from this job. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

GALLATIN CARPET CLEANING

CUSTOMER MARGIN- ACTIVITY BASED COSTING

AMOUNTS PER JOB

Costs:

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