Foam Products, Incorporated, makes foam seat cushions for the automotive and aerospace industries. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools, which are listed below along with their activity measures and activity rates: Activity Cost Pool Supporting direct labor Batch processing Order processing Customer service Activity Measure Number of direct labor-hours Number of batches Number of orders Number of customers The company just completed a single order from Interstate Trucking for 2,300 custom seat cushions. The order was produced in three batches. Each seat cushion required 0.6 direct labor-hours. The selling price was $142.40 per unit, the direct materials cost was $110 per unit, and the direct labor cost was $14.30 per unit. This was Interstate Trucking's only order during the year. Costs Activity Rate $ 14 per direct labor-hour $ 86 per batch $ 287 per order $ 2,612 per customer Required: Calculate the customer margin on sales to Interstate Trucking for the year. Interstate Trucking Customer Margin-ABC Analysis

Foam Products, Incorporated, makes foam seat cushions for the automotive and aerospace industries. The company's activity-based costing system has four activity cost pools, which are listed below along with their activity measures and activity rates: Activity Cost Pool Supporting direct labor Batch processing Order processing Customer service Activity Measure Number of direct labor-hours Number of batches Number of orders Number of customers The company just completed a single order from Interstate Trucking for 2,300 custom seat cushions. The order was produced in three batches. Each seat cushion required 0.6 direct labor-hours. The selling price was $142.40 per unit, the direct materials cost was $110 per unit, and the direct labor cost was $14.30 per unit. This was Interstate Trucking's only order during the year. Costs Activity Rate $ 14 per direct labor-hour $ 86 per batch $ 287 per order $ 2,612 per customer Required: Calculate the customer margin on sales to Interstate Trucking for the year. Interstate Trucking Customer Margin-ABC Analysis

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