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Author: Libby
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  1. Activity-Based Customer Costing

    Sleepeze Company produces mattresses for 20 retail outlets. Of the 20 retail outlets, 19 are small, separately owned furniture stores and one is a retail chain. The retail chain buys 60% of the mattresses produced. The 19 smaller customers purchase mattresses in approximately equal quantities, where the orders are about the same size. Data concerning Sleepeze’s customer activity are as follows:

      Large Retailer Smaller Retailers
    Units purchased 108,000   72,000  
    Orders placed 36   3,600  
    Number of sales calls 18   882  
    Manufacturing costs $43,200,000   $28,800,000  
    Order filling costs allocated* $1,363,500   $909,000  
    Sales force costs allocated* $756,000   $504,000  
    *Currently allocated on sales volume (units sold).  

    Currently, customer-driven costs are assigned to customers based on units sold, a unit-level driver.

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    Assign costs to customers by using an ABC approach. Round your answers and all intermediate calculations to the nearest dollar.

    Order filling rate $ per order
    Selling call rate $ per sales call
    Cost assignment:  
    Large retailer $
    Smaller retailers $
 
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