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Author: Garrison

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Chapter 7.A, Problem 1E

EXERCISE 7A-1 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing LO7-6

Saratoga Company manufactures jobs to customer specifications. The company is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Purchasing Department to better understand how Purchasing Department labor costs are consumed by individual jobs. To aid the study, the company provided the following data regarding its Purchasing Department and three of its many jobs:

Chapter 7.A, Problem 1E, EXERCISE 7A-1 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing LO7-6 Saratoga Company manufactures jobs to

Required:

Calculate the cost per minute of the resource supplied in the Purchasing Department
Calculate the time-driven activity rate for each of Saratoga’s three activities.
Calculate the total purchasing labor costs assigned to Job X, Job Y, and Job Z.

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