Question: The Cedar Park branch of Austin State Savings Bank (ASSB) is a retail branch in a rapidly growing residential area. It services individuals and local

The Cedar Park branch of Austin State Savings Bank (ASSB) is a retail branch in a rapidly growing residential area. It services individuals and local businesses. To support its services, the branch employs 14 tellers, 3 retail sales managers (RSMs), and the branch managing officer. The branch services about 3,000 customers. Each of the 70 branches of ASSB is implementing ABC in order to improve profitability. ASSB's branch managing officers have been given the responsibility to implement activity-based costing. The managing officer at the Cedar Park branch decided to implement a two-stage ABC system. The following process map depicts its two-stage ABC system.

Tellers - $370,000 Retail Sales Managers - $220,000 Managing Officer - $120,000 Others - $400,000


The results of the ABC study are summarized in the "Internal Activity Analysis

All employees have been interviewed as part of the ABC study. For example, tellers were asked how they spent their time. Three major activities were identified. They said that they spent most of their time (60%) processing deposits and withdrawals. They also estimated that they spent about 5% of their time processing new accounts and about 15% of their time processing other transactions. The remaining 20% of their time was spent on all other banking activities. The results of the interviews are presented in the following table:


Internal Activity Analysis



Process


All Other



Open New

Deposits and

Process Other

Banking



Accounts

Withdrawals

Transactions

Activities

Total

Teller wages

5%

60%

15%

20%

100%

Retail sales

20%

10%

20%

50%

100%

manager salary






Managing officer

0%

5%

35%

60%

100%

salary







The Cedar Park branch has the following cost data for the last year.

Teller wages

$360,000

RSM salaries and benefits

280,000

Managing officer salary and benefits

170,000

Other bank costs

490,000

Total

$1,280,000


The "other bank costs" include depreciation on the facility including furniture, building, equipment, insurance, rentals of computers, contracted computer services, telecommunications, and utilities. These costs cannot be directly or indirectly related to routine bank activities, such as processing new accounts or processing deposits or withdrawals, and, thus, are unallocated. There are no costs that can be traced directly to customers so the

Cedar Park branch has just two types of costs—indirect and unallocated.

Cedar Park branch of Austin State Savings Bank (ASSB) was identifying potential cost drivers for each major activity. The following cost drivers were chosen because they were both plausible and reliable and data were available:


Activity

Cost Driver

Annual Flow of Cost Driver

Process new accounts

Number of new accounts

550


Process deposits and withdrawals

Number of deposits and

156,000



withdrawals



Process other transactions

Number of other transactions

53,000


Activity

Resource

Allocated cost

Open new accounts

Tellers

$18,500


Retail sales managers

50,000

Total traceable cost


$68,500

Activity

Resource

Allocated cost

Process deposits

Tellers

$222,000

and withdrawals

Retail sales managers

25,000


Managing officers

8,500

Total traceable cost


$255,500

Activity

Resource

Allocated cost

Process other

Tellers

$55,500

transactions

Retail sales managers

50,000


Managing officers

59,500

Total traceable cost


$165,000


Of the 3,000 customers of the branch, only 300 are local businesses. The business-customer class generated 50 new accounts, 83,000 deposits and withdrawals, and 25,000 other transactions. The implementation of ABC at all branches of ASSB provided sufficient data for internal benchmarking. The following are the lowest activity costs among all branches implementing two-stage ABC systems:

Activity


Lowest Activity Cost per Driver Unit

Open new account


$102.52 per new account

Process deposits and withdrawals


$0.89 per deposit or withdrawal

Process other transactions


$2.83 per transaction

Customer Class


Lowest Customer Cost per Account

Retail



$85.40

Commercial



$677.62


Requirement 1. Determine the allocated (indirect) cost per account for retail and commercial accounts. Use the process map as a guide. Begin by calculating the cost per unit for each of the three main activities. First enter the formula, then calculate the cost per unit. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)

New accounts

$68,500

/

550

=

$124.5455

Deposits and withdrawals

$255,500

/

156,000

=

$1.6378

Other transactions

$165,000

/

53,000

=

$3.1132

Next, compute the total account cost for each customer class.(Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.)



Retail

New accounts

=


Process deposits and withdrawals

=


Process other transactions

=


Total cost




How do you find the New Accounts, Process deposits and withdrawals, Process other Transactions, and Total Cost for RETAIL and COMMERCIAL?

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