Question: Problem 1 - 25 Points: ProfitMax Performance Evaluation Cloud Software, LLC sells five (5) highly sophisticated and integrated information system analytics products, identified as Product:

Problem 1 - 25 Points:

ProfitMax Performance Evaluation Cloud Software, LLC sells five (5) highly sophisticated and integrated information system analytics products, identified as Product: Financial Performance, Optimization Analytics, Descriptive Analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive Analytics.

You are being asked to determine the profitability of one customer and also determine the customer profit margin, by product sold. Philadelphia Strategic Analytics Implementers is the customer in question and management is concerned that the operations result are not truly indicative of operation costs and are looking to evaluate the profitability of the customer.

You are given two informational tables, one with detail information for each of the products and another table for the purpose of calculating the ABC activity rates (POR).

ProfitMax Performance Evaluation Cloud Software, LLC has recently implemented an ABC system. The system implemented activity cost pools for the following:

Activity Cost Pool

Activity Rate

Consulting support

? to be calculated

per Direct Labor Hour

Fee structure support

? to be calculated

per order processed

Implementation design

? to be calculated

per custom design

Design analysis

? to be calculated

per Direct Labor Hour

Customer service

? to be calculated

per Customer

The detail information in the first table indicate the selling price per unit, the direct material and direct labor costs, and the ABC activity costs per product. Complete the first table indicating the revenues and cost for each product and in total. Calculate the product profit margin for each product and the total customer margin for the customer. Also calculate the total customer profit margin percent for the customer.

Customer Service (Activity Pool) is a customer level activityall other activity pools are product level costs. I.e. you should only charge Customer Service once to the customer and not to any particular product.

Profitmax Performance Evaluation Cloud Software, LLC
Customer: Philadelphia Strategic Analytics Implementers
Product: Financial Performance Product: Optimization Analytics Product: Descriptive Analytics Product: Predictive Analytics Product: Prescriptive Analytics Total
Sales -
Costs:
Direct Materials -
Direct Labor -
Fee structure support -
Implementation design -
Consulting support -
Design analysis -
Customer service
Total Costs -
Product profit margin
Customer profit margin -
Customer Profit Margin % #DIV/0!
Product Related Information
Number of products 130 87 185 133 75
Number of orders 36 18 160 38 16
Number of custom designs 24 - 16 12 22
D/L Hours per product 78.50 92.00 108.00 94.00 42.50
Selling price per product $ 8,995 $ 14,995 $ 16,995 $ 12,995 $ 10,995
D/M cost per product $ 450 $ 980 $ 650 $ 490 $ 720
D/L per hour $ 22.50 $ 31.40 $ 72.00 $ 36.50 $ 27.00
ABC Costing - Activity Cost Pool POR Rate Analysis
Activity Rate Calculation
Activity Cost Pool Est. Cost Pool Est. Cost Driver POR Rate Basis
Consulting support $ 10,576,332 406,782 per D/L Hour
Fee structure support $ 1,125,600 3,216 per order
Implementation design $ 701,520 888 per custom design
Design analysis $ 11,186,505 406,782 per D/L Hour
Customer service $ 251,650 70 per customer

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