HW 7 Q 2

Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and Other purposes. The proprietor Of the company believes that CCStS are driven primarily by the size Of customer lawns, the size Of customer garden beds. the distance to travel to Customers. and the number Of customers. In addition. the costs Of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below: Activity Cost Pool Caring for lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service Activity Measure Square feet Of lawn Square feet Of low maintenance beds Square feet Of high maintenance beds Miles Number Of customers The company has already completed its first Stage allocations Of costs and has summanzed its annual costs and activity as follows: Activity Cost Pool Caring for lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service Required: Estimated Overhead s 72.000 s 26.400 S 41.400 s 3,250 s 8,750 Expected Activity 150.000 square feet Of lawn 20.000 square feet Of low maintenance beds 15.000 square feet Of high maintenance beds 12,500 miles 25 Customers Compute the activity rate for each Of the acivity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Caring for lawn Caring for garden bedslow maintenance Caring for garden bedshigh maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service per square foot Of lawn per square foot Of low maintenance beds per square foot Of high maintenance beds per mile per customer