Bergeron's Fine Furnishings manufactures upscale custom furniture. Bergeron's currently uses a plantwide overhead rate based on direct labor hours to allocate its $1,450,000 of manufacturing overhead to individual jobs. However, Donna Donaldson, owner and CEO, is considering refining the company's costing system by using departmental overhead rates. Currently, the Machining Department incurs $730,000 of manufacturing overhead while the Finishing Department incurs $720,000 of manufacturing overhead. Donaldson has identified machine hours (MH) as the primary manufacturing overhead cost driver in the Machining Department and direct labor (DL) hours as the primary cost driver in the Finishing Department.

Woodstock Binding has two service departments, IT (Information Technology) and HR (Human Resources), and two operating departments, Publishing and Binding. Management has decided to allocate IT costs on the basis of IT Tickets (issued with each IT request) in each department and HR costs on the basis of employees in each department. The following data appear in the company records for the current period: IT tickets Employees Department direct costs. IT HR 0 16 1,525 0 Publishing 2,440 24 $ 152,000 $ 247,950 $ 431,000 Binding 2,135 40 $ 392,500 Woodstock Binding estimates that the variable costs in the IT Department total $112,500, and in the HR Department variable costs to $142,500. Avoidable fixed costs in the IT Department are $18,250. Required: If Woodstock Binding outsources the IT Department functions, what is the maximum it can pay an outside vendor without increasing total costs? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. × Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Maximum…

Garrell Corporation is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Customer Support Department. The company has provided the following data to aid in that study: Time-driven activity rate (cost per unit of activity) Activity cost pool: Receiving Calls Resolving Issues Settling Disputes Cost Object Data: Number of calls received Number of issues resolved Number of disputes settled Customer P 31 17 1 $5.46 $8.58 $13.26 Customer Q 21 10 Required: Using time-driven activity-based costing, determine the total Customer Support Department cost assigned to cach customer.

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