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Polk and Stoneman is a public accounting firm that offers two primary services, auditing and tax return preparation. A controversy has developed between the partners of the two service lines as to who is contributing the greater amount to the bottom line. The area of contention is the assignment of overhead. The tax partners argue for assigning overhead on the basis of 40% of direct labor dollars, while the audit partners argue for implementing activity-based costing. The partners agree to use next year's budgeted data for purposes of analysis and comparison. The following overhead data are collected to develop the comparison.
Expected
Expected Use
Use of
of Cost Drivers
Estimated
Cost
per Service
Activity Cost Pools
Cost Drivers
Overhead
Drivers
Audit
Tax
Employee training
Direct labor dollars
$216,000
$1,800,000
$1,050,000
$750,000
Typing and
Number of reports/
secretarial
forms
76,200
2,500
800
1,700
Computing
Number of minutes
204,000
60,000
25,000
35,000
Facility rental
Number of employees
142,500
40
22
18
Travel
Per expense reports
81,300
Direct
56,000
25,300
$720,000
Instructions
(a) Using traditional product costing as proposed by the tax partners, compute the total overhead cost assigned to both services (audit and tax) of Polk and Stoneman.
(b) (1) Using activity-based costing, prepare a schedule showing the computations of the activity-based overhead rates (per cost driver).
(2) Prepare a schedule assigning each activity's overhead cost pool to each service based on the use of the cost drivers.
(c) Classify each of the activities as a value-added activity or a non-value-added activity.
(d) Comment on the comparative overhead cost for the two services under both traditional costing and ABC.
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