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Shrute Inc, manufactures office copiers, which are sold to retailers. The price

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Question

Shrute Inc, manufactures office copiers, which are sold to retailers. The price and cost of goods sold for each copier are as follows: Price Cost of goods sold $740 per unit 440 $300 per unit In addition, the company incurs selling and administrative expenses of $276,300. The company wishes to assign these costs to its three major retail hese expenses are related to its three major activities customers, The Warehouse, Kosmo Co., and Supply Universe. T nonmanufacturing activities: customer service, retailer's sale of Shrute copiers to consumers. The budgeted activity costs and activity bases associated with these activities are: Activity sales order processing, and advertising support. The advertising support is in the form of advertisements that are placed by Shrute Inc. to support the Budgeted Activity Activity Base Cost $40,300 28,000 208,000 $276,300 Number of service requests Number of sales orders Number of ads placed Total activity cost

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

1

Activity

Cost

Cost Driver

Activity Rate

A

B

C=A/B

Customer Service

40300

260

No. of service requests

155

Sales Order Processing

28000

800

No. of sales orders

35

Advertising Support

208000

160

No. of ads placed

1300

2

Determination of customer wise activity cost

Customer

Activity Cost

Activity Cost

Activity Cost

Total

Customer Service

Sales order processing

Advertising

Cost

Support

The Warehouse

155*50=

7750

35*220=

7700

1300*20=

26000

41450

Kosmo Co.

155*10=

1550

35*100=

3500

1300*20=

26000

31050

Supply Universe

155*200=

31000

35*480=

16800

1300*120=

156000

203800

Total cost

The Warehouse

41450

Kosmo Co.

31050

Supply Universe

203800

3

The Warehouse

Kosmo Co.

Supply Universe

sales (unit sold * 740)

429,200

429,200

429,200

less:cost of goods sold (440*unit sold)

255,200

255,200

255,200

Gross profit (300*unit sold)

174,000

174,000

174,000

less:selling and administration activities

customer service

7750

1550

31000

project bidding

7700

3500

16800

engineering suppot

26000

26000

156000

Income from operations

132,550

142,950

-29,800

Activity

Cost

Cost Driver

Activity Rate

A

B

C=A/B

Customer Service

40300

260

No. of service requests

155

Sales Order Processing

28000

800

No. of sales orders

35

Advertising Support

208000

160

No. of ads placed

1300