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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 $22.85 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 Cleaning carpets Travel to jobs Job support Other (organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs) Activity Measure Square feet cleaned (008) Miles driven Number of jobs Activity for the Year 12,000 hundred square feet 349,500 miles 1,700 jobs None Not applicable The total cost of operating the company for the year is $339,000 which includes the following costs: Wages Cleaning supplies Cleaning equipment depreciation Vehicle expenses office expenses President's compensation Total cost $ 145,000 27,000 7,000 26,000 63,000 71,000 $ 339,000 Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows: Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities Travel Cleaning to Carpets Jobs Wages 748 118 Cleaning supplies 1008 08 Cleaning equipment depreciation 710 01 Job Support Q 03 08 Other 158 08 298 Total 1000 1000 1000 Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities Travel Cleaning to Carpets Jobs Wages 748 118 Cleaning supplies 100% 08 Cleaning equipment depreciation 718 08 Vehicle expenses 08 798 Office expenses 08 President's compensation 08 08 Job Support 08 08 08 08 568 284 Other 158 08 298 218 448 72 Total 1008 1008 1008 1008 1008 1008 09 Job support consists of recelving 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 51-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 $13710 (600 square feet @ $22.85 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Required 4 Prepare the first stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools. Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total $ 0 Wages Cleaning supplies Cleaning animant Honraristinn 0 n

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