Jiffy Mart has a Kaizen (continuous improvement) approach to budgeting monthly activity costs for each month of 2015. Each successive month, the budgeted cost-driver rate decreases by 0.4% relative to the preceding month. So, for example, February’s budgeted cost-driver rate is 0.996 times January’s budgeted cost-driver rate, and March’s budgeted cost-driver rate is 0.996 times the budgeted February rate. Jiffy Mart assumes that the budgeted amount of cost-driver usage remains the same each month.

Required
1. What are the total budgeted cost for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2015?
2. What are the benefits of using a Kaizen approach to budgeting? What are the limitations of this ­approach, and how might Jiffy Mart management overcomethem?

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January 2015 Budgeted Amount of Cost Driver Used January 2015 Budgeted Sf Fresh Packaged Activity Ordering Delivery Shelf stocking Customer support Cost Driver Number of purchase orders Number of deliveries Hours of stocking time Number of items sold Cost-Driver Rate Drinks Snacks Food 14 19 94 4,600 34,200 10,750 S 45 S 41 $10.50 $ 0.09 14 12 16 172 24 62