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Forever Mart (FM) has a Kaizen (continuous improvement) approach to budgeting activity area costs for each month of 2022. Each successive month, the budgeted cost driver rate decreases
by 0.3% relative to the preceding month (so, for example, February's budgeted cost driver rate is 0.997 times January's budgeted cost driver rate, and March's budgeted cost driver rate is
0.997 times the budgeted February 2022 rate). FM assumes that the budgeted amount of cost driver usage remains the same each month.
(Click the icon to view the four activities and their cost data.)
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1. What is the total budgeted cost for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2022?
2. What are the benefits of using a Kaizen approach to budgeting? What are the limitations of this approach, and how might FM management overcome them?
Requirement 1. What is the total budgeted cost for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2022?
Begin by calculating the budgeted cost driver rates for February. Then calculate March. (Round your answers to five decimal places.)
Activity
Ordering
Delivery
Shelf-stocking
Customer support
Budgeted Cost Driver Rates
March
January February
$ 93.00
81.00
21.00
0.12
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Transcribed Image Text:Forever Mart (FM) has a Kaizen (continuous improvement) approach to budgeting activity area costs for each month of 2022. Each successive month, the budgeted cost driver rate decreases by 0.3% relative to the preceding month (so, for example, February's budgeted cost driver rate is 0.997 times January's budgeted cost driver rate, and March's budgeted cost driver rate is 0.997 times the budgeted February 2022 rate). FM assumes that the budgeted amount of cost driver usage remains the same each month. (Click the icon to view the four activities and their cost data.) Required 1. What is the total budgeted cost for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2022? 2. What are the benefits of using a Kaizen approach to budgeting? What are the limitations of this approach, and how might FM management overcome them? Requirement 1. What is the total budgeted cost for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2022? Begin by calculating the budgeted cost driver rates for February. Then calculate March. (Round your answers to five decimal places.) Activity Ordering Delivery Shelf-stocking Customer support Budgeted Cost Driver Rates March January February $ 93.00 81.00 21.00 0.12
Activities and Cost Data
Activity
Ordering
Delivery
Cost Driver
Number of purchase orders
Number of deliveries
Shelf-stocking
Hours of stocking time
Customer support Number of items sold
Print
January 2022
Budgeted Cost
Driver Rate
$
93.00
$
81.00
$
21.00
$ 0.12
Done
January 2022 Budgeted Amount
of Cost Driver Used
Soft
Drinks
14
12
19
4,800
Fresh
Produce
24
67
178
34,400
Packaged
Food
14
18
92
11,250
X
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Transcribed Image Text:Activities and Cost Data Activity Ordering Delivery Cost Driver Number of purchase orders Number of deliveries Shelf-stocking Hours of stocking time Customer support Number of items sold Print January 2022 Budgeted Cost Driver Rate $ 93.00 $ 81.00 $ 21.00 $ 0.12 Done January 2022 Budgeted Amount of Cost Driver Used Soft Drinks 14 12 19 4,800 Fresh Produce 24 67 178 34,400 Packaged Food 14 18 92 11,250 X
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