Question: Please help!! Main Menu Contents Grades (-) Timer t-Notes : Evaluate-feedbackPrint e.Info Course Contents PROBLEM #1 [COST ALLOCATION] Curtis & Company is an architectural firm
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Main Menu Contents Grades (-) Timer t-Notes : Evaluate-feedbackPrint e.Info Course Contents PROBLEM #1 [COST ALLOCATION] Curtis & Company is an architectural firm specializing in home remodeling for private clients and new office buildings for corporate clients. Curtis & Company charges customers at a billing rate equal to 140% of the client's total job cost. A client's total job cost is a combination of 1) professional cost based on the professional hours spent on the client's job, and 2) operating costs allocated to the client's job. Curtis currently allocates operating costs to jobs based on the number of I hours spent on the job. Curtis estimates its five professionals will work a total of 9,000 hours on client jobs during the year, and their salaries will total $900,000. All operating costs other than professional salaries (travel reimbursements copy costs, secretarial salaries, office lease, etc.) can be grouped into three activities. Relevant information for these activities are estimated as follows Total Activity Cost Total Usage by Total Usage by Activity Transportation to clients Blueprint copying Office support Total operating costs $9,800 30,100 193,800 $233,700 Cost Driver Round-trip mileage to clients Number of copies Secretarial time Corporate Clients 2,600 miles 200 copies 2,400 hours Private Clients 10,800 miles 500 copies 2,900 hours Amy Lee hired Curtis & Company to design her kitchen remodeling. A total of 24 professional hours were spent on this job. In addition, Amy's remodeling job required one of the professionals to travel back and forth to her house for a total of 150 miles. The blueprints had to be copied five times because Amy changed the plans several times. In addition, 15 hours of secretarial time were used lining up the subcontractors for the job. REQUIRED [ROUND ALL ALLOCATION RATES TO THE NEAREST CENT AND ALLOCATIONS TO THE NEAREST DOLLAR.] Part A [5 tries; 5 points] What is the total cost of Amy Lee's remodeling job under the current single-driver system? Submit Answer Tries 0/6 Part B [5 tries; 5 points] What would be the total cost of Amy Lee's remodeling job under an activity-based costing system? Submit Answer Tries 1/6 Previous Tries
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