1) | Calculation of Gross Margin Percentage for each of MininHot's three major customer segments | ||||
Key Accounts | Multilocation | Owner Operated | Total | ||
Revenues | $7,416,000 | $6,300,000 | $3,960,000 | $17,676,000 | |
Cost of Goods Sold | $7,200,000 | $6,000,000 | $3,600,000 | $16,800,000 | |
Gross Margin | $216,000 | $300,000 | $360,000 | $876,000 | |
Gross Margin Percentage [(Revenue-COGS)/Revenue | 2.91% | 4.76% | 9.09% | 4.96% | |
2) | Calculation of cost driver rates for each of the five activity areas | ||||
Activity | Activity Expenses | Activity cost driver | Activity cost driver quantity | Activity cost driver rates | |
Order Processing | $160,000 | Number of customer purchase order | 4,000 | $40 | |
Line-item Processing | $127,680 | Number of Line-items ordered by customers | 42,560 | $3 | |
Delivering to Customer premises | $142,000 | Number of store deliveries | 2,960 | $47.97 | |
Boxes shippedto customers | $152,000 | Number of cartons shipped | 152,000 | $1 | |
Recipe development with customer | $20,480 | Hours of recipe development | 1,280 | $16 | |
3) | Calculation of Operating income for each market segment using Activity Based Costing | ||||
Key Accounts | Multilocation | Owner Operated | Total | ||
Revenues | $7,416,000 | $6,300,000 | $3,960,000 | $17,676,000 | |
Cost of Goods Sold | $7,200,000 | $6,000,000 | $3,600,000 | $16,800,000 | |
Gross Margin | $216,000 | $300,000 | $360,000 | $876,000 | |
Less: Other Operating Cost (Number of Activities X Overhead cost per activity) | |||||
Order Processing Cost | $11,200 | $28,800 | $120,000 | $160,000 | |
Line-item Processing cost | $11,760 | $25,920 | $90,000 | $127,680 | |
Delivering to customer premises | $11,513 | $34,538 | $95,949 | $142,000 | |
Boxed shipped to customers | $72,000 | $48,000 | $32,000 | $152,000 | |
Recipe development cost | $11,520 | $5,760 | $3,200 | $20,480 | |
Operating Income | $98,007 | $156,982 | $18,851 | $273,840 | |
4) | Activity-based costing identifies the activities generating costs and assigns costs to those activities. As a manager, Using activity-based costing we can identify which activities consume resources. The focus is then to effectively manage costly activities with the goal of reducing costs and improving quality. |
MininHot is a distributor of specialty sauces to the HORECA sector. MininHot operates at capacity and...
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