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Rock Solid Bank and Trust (RSB&T) offers only checking accounts. Customers can write checks and use a network of automated teller machines. RSB&T earns revenue by investing the money deposited; currently, it averages 5.80 percent annually on its investments of those deposits. To compete with larger banks, RSB&T pays depositors 0.50 percent on all deposits. A recent study classified the banks annual operating costs into four activities.

Activity Cost Driver Cost Driver Volume
Using ATM Number of uses $ 2,400,000 3,200,000 uses
Visiting branch Number of visits 1,440,000 240,000 visits
Processing transaction Number of transactions 10,560,000 128,000,000 transactions
Managing functions Total deposits 9,600,000 $ 600,000,000 in deposits
Total overhead $ 24,000,000

Data on two representative customers follow.

Customer A Customer B
ATM uses 100 200
Branch visits 5 20
Number of transactions 40 1,500
Average deposit $ 6,000 $ 6,000

Required:

a. Compute RSB&T's operating profits.

b. Compute the profit from Customer A and Customer B, assuming that customer costs are based only on deposits. Interest costs = 0.50 percent of deposits; operating costs are 4 percent (= $24,000,000/$600,000,000) of deposits.

c. Compute the profit from Customer A and Customer B, assuming that customer costs are computed using the information in the activity-based costing analysis.

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