Patricia was evaluating the profitability of her bike shop, which sells bicycles, skateboards, and frisbee...

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Patricia was evaluating the profitability of her bike shop, which sells bicycles, skateboards, and frisbee golf items. Since the frisbee golf segment was new, she wasn't surprised to see a segment loss after allucating her selling, general, and administrative costs to the three-product areas using one rate, based on percentage of sales revenue. After looking more closely, though, she realized the selling, general, and administrative costs came from three main activity areas and could be allocated using more specific rates based on cost drivers as follows.
If the frisbee golf line requires 25 hours of management time and 125 square feet of space, and it generates just 4% of total revenues. for the shop, how much of these total SG&A costs were initially allocated to the golf line?
SG&A Costs
Total Cost
Quantity of Cost Driver
Management salaries
$51,300
900
hours devoted to managing the lines
Facility costs
21,600
1,800
square feet of space occupied
Insurance and other
8,000
Percentage of sales revenue
Costs allocated
$
How much of these costs would have been allocated had Patricia used activity-based rates?

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