Gallatin Carpet Cleaning has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $$12\mathrm{.}25$ per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is making a profit on jobs requiring considerable travel time. The owner$$s daughter suggested answering this question by designing an activity$-$based costing system using the information shown below:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Activity for the Year

Cleaning carpets Square feet cleaned $(00$s$)8,500$ hundred square feet

Travel to jobs Miles driven $142,000$ miles

Job support Number of jobs $2,400$ jobs

Other $($organization$-$sustaining costs and idle capacity costs$)$ None Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $$361,000$ which includes the following costs:

Wages $ $140,000$

Cleaning supplies $23,000$

Cleaning equipment depreciation $13,000$

Vehicle expenses $39,000$

Office expenses $68,000$

President$$s compensation $78,000$

Total cost $ $361,000$

She distributed these operating costs across her four activities as follows:

Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities

Cleaning Carpets Travel to Jobs Job Support Other Total

Wages $70\%11\%0\%19\%100\%$

Cleaning supplies $100\%0\%0\%0\%100\%$

Cleaning equipment depreciation $60\%0\%0\%40\%100\%$

Vehicle expenses $0\%78\%0\%22\%100\%$

Office expenses $0\%0\%63\%37\%100\%$

President$$s compensation $0\%0\%29\%71\%100\%$

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on$.$

Required:

$1.$ Prepare the first$-$stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools.

$2.$ Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

$3.$ The company recently completed a $400-$square$-$foot carpet$-$cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch$$a $55-$mile round$-$trip from the company$$s home office. Compute the cost of this job using the activity$-$based costing system.

$4.$ The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $$49\mathrm{.}00(400$ square feet @ $$12\mathrm{.}25$ per hundred square feet$).$ Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.