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Marvin's Kitchen Supply delivers supplies for restaurants throughout the city. The firm adds 10...

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Marvin's Kitchen Supply delivers supplies for restaurants throughout the city. The firm adds 10 percent to the cost of the supplies to cover the delivery cost. The delivery fee is meant to cover the cost of delivery. A consultant has analyzed the delivery service using activity-based costing methods and identified four activities. Data on these activities follow:

Cost Driver Volume
Activity Cost Driver Cost Driver Volume
Processing order Number of orders $ 75,000 5,000 orders
Loading truck Number of items 150,000 100,000 items
Delivering merchandise Number of orders 90,000 5,000 orders
Processing invoice Number of invoices 72,000 4,000 invoices
     Total overhead $ 387,000

Two of Marvin's customers are City Diner and Le Chien Chaud. Data for orders and deliveries to these two customers follow:

City Diner Le Chien Chaud
Order value $ 75,000 $ 90,000
Number of orders 52 110
Number of item 600 1,500
Number of invoices 12 150

Required:

a. What would the delivery charge for each customer be under the current policy of 10 percent of order value?

b. Calculate the cost of each activity for both restaurants to determine the total activity-based costing estimate of the cost of delivering to each customer. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) Process:

Under activity-based costing system, the total overhead cost is allocated to various product lines by identifying a pool of all cost driver activities and determining the overhead activity rates. It is different from traditional costing system, where a single parameter such as machine hour or labor hour is used.

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a. What would the delivery charge for each customer be under the current policy of 10 percent of order value?

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The Activity-Based Costing Process

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Activity-based costing is used to track costs for each aspect of production. Learn the activity-based costing process, including how to use activity cost pools, find activity rates, assign overhead, and report information on a manufacturing overhead budget.


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