Marvin’s Kitchen Supply delivers restaurant supplies 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                       $ 65,000                      5,000 orders Loading truck                       Number of items                         342,000                    100,000 items Delivering merchandise     Number of orders                          80,000                        5,000 orders Processing invoice              Number of invoices                        64,000                       4,000 invoices     Total overhead

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Marvin’s Kitchen Supply delivers restaurant supplies 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                       $ 65,000                      5,000 orders

Loading truck                       Number of items                         342,000                    100,000 items

Delivering merchandise     Number of orders                          80,000                        5,000 orders

Processing invoice              Number of invoices                        64,000                       4,000 invoices

    Total overhead                                                                       $551,000

 

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                                     $85,000               $95,000

Number of orders                                     65                     270

Number of items                                    850                   1,500

Number of invoices                                  13                      170     

 

Required:

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

                                     Delivery Charge

                                     Per Customer

City Diner                ________________

Le Chien Chaud      ________________

 

 

  1. 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.)

                      City Diner                          Le Chien Chaud

Processing order                                   ________                           ____________

Loading truck                                        _________                         _____________

Delivering merchandise                     __________                        _____________

Processing invoice                              __________                        _____________

        Total cost                                      $                 0                       $                          0 

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