Reference no: EM13953042
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 $23.80 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, a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools seemed to be adequate. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:
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Activity Cost Pool
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Activity Measure
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Activity for the Year
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Cleaning carpets
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Square feet cleaned (00s)
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10,500
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hundred square feet
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Travel to jobs
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Miles driven
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325,500
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miles
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Job support
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Number of jobs
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2,000
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jobs
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Other (costs of idle capacity and
organization-sustaining costs)
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None
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Not applicable
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The total cost of operating the company for the year is $365,000, which includes the following costs
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Wages
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$
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148,000
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Cleaning supplies
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21,000
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Cleaning equipment depreciation
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12,000
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Vehicle expenses
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40,000
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Office expenses
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69,000
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President's compensation
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75,000
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Total cost
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$
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365,000
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Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
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Cleaning Carpets
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Travel to Jobs
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Job Support
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Other
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Total
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Wages
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77
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%
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16
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%
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0
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%
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7
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%
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100
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%
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Cleaning supplies
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100
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%
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0
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%
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0
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%
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0
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%
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100
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%
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Cleaning equipment depreciation
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70
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%
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0
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%
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0
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%
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30
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%
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100
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%
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Vehicle expenses
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0
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%
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79
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%
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0
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%
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21
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%
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100
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%
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Office expenses
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0
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%
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0
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%
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58
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%
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42
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%
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100
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%
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President's compensation
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0
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%
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0
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%
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27
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%
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73
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%
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100
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%
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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 4 hundred square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N ranch-a 58.00-mile round-trip journey from the company's offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system.
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