Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity Customer deliveries Number of deliveries $ 495,900 5,700 deliveries Manual order processing Number of manual orders 385,400 4,700 orders Electronic order processing Number of electronic orders 220,440 13,200 orders Line item picking Number of line items picked 540,500 470,000 line items Total selling and administrative expenses $ 1,642,240 Med Max gathered the data below for two of the many hospitals that it serves—City General and County General: Activity Activity Measure City General County General Number of deliveries 15 30 Number of manual orders 0 60 Number of electronic orders 20 0 Number of line items picked 120 280 Required: 1. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. 2. Compute the total activity costs that would be assigned to City General and County General.
Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
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1) Activity rate
Activity cost pool | Activity rate |
Customer deliveries (495900/5700) | 87 per delivery |
Manual order processing (385400/4700) | 82 per manual order |
Electronic order processing (220440/13200) | 16.70 per electronic order |
Line item picking (540500/470000) | 1.15 per line item picked |
2) Calculate allocated cost
City general | Country General | |
Customer deliveries | 1305 | 2610 |
Manual order processing | 0 | 4920 |
Electronic order processing | 334 | 0 |
Line item picking | 138 | 322 |
Total activity cost | 1777 | 7852 |
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity Customer deliveries Number of deliveries $ 495,900 5,700 deliveries...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity Customer deliveries Number of deliveries $ 525,100 5,900 deliveries...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity Customer deliveries Number of deliveries $ 325,600 4,400 deliveries...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs Incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below. Metivity coat Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronie order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Customer deliveries Manual order processing Electronic order processing Line item picking Total selling and administrative...
Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Total Cost Total Activity Customer deliveries Number of deliveries $ 302,400 4,200 deliveries...