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![Exercise 7-3 (Algo) Compute Activity Rates [LO7-3]
Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service using activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes.
The owner of the company believes costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the
distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depend on whether
the beds are low-maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high-maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants).
Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:
Activity Cost Pool
Caring for lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
Travel to jobs
Customer billing and service
Activity Measure
Square feet of lawn
Square feet of low-maintenance beds
Square feet of high-maintenance beds
Miles
Number of customers
The company completed its first-stage cost allocations and summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Caring for lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Estimated Overhead
Cost
$ 79,400
$ 32,000
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
$ 47,430
Travel to jobs
$ 4,200
$8,700
Customer billing and service
Required:
Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
Note: Round your answers to 2 decimal places.
Expected Activity
185,000 square feet of lawn
23,000 square feet of low-maintenance beds
17,000 square feet of high-maintenance beds
14,000 miles
34 customers
Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Caring for lawn
per square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
Travel to jobs
Customer billing and service
per square feet of low-maintenance beds
per square feet of high-maintenance beds
per mile
per customer](https://content.bartleby.com/qna-images/question/06c7c8d5-2c04-49b7-8fe3-106e5cab0a5d/2aa4b04a-9fc5-4a2a-91ce-dd65a2102342/paa3hb_thumbnail.png)
Transcribed Image Text:Exercise 7-3 (Algo) Compute Activity Rates [LO7-3]
Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service using activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes.
The owner of the company believes costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the
distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depend on whether
the beds are low-maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high-maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants).
Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below:
Activity Cost Pool
Caring for lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
Travel to jobs
Customer billing and service
Activity Measure
Square feet of lawn
Square feet of low-maintenance beds
Square feet of high-maintenance beds
Miles
Number of customers
The company completed its first-stage cost allocations and summarized its annual costs and activity as follows:
Activity Cost Pool
Caring for lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Estimated Overhead
Cost
$ 79,400
$ 32,000
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
$ 47,430
Travel to jobs
$ 4,200
$8,700
Customer billing and service
Required:
Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools.
Note: Round your answers to 2 decimal places.
Expected Activity
185,000 square feet of lawn
23,000 square feet of low-maintenance beds
17,000 square feet of high-maintenance beds
14,000 miles
34 customers
Activity Cost Pool
Activity Rate
Caring for lawn
per square feet of lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance
Travel to jobs
Customer billing and service
per square feet of low-maintenance beds
per square feet of high-maintenance beds
per mile
per customer
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