Ex 5-35 (Algo) ABC; Selling Costs (LO 5-2, 5-4) Textile Crafts Company (TCC) sells craft...

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Ex 5-35 (Algo) ABC; Selling Costs (LO 5-2, 5-4)

Textile Crafts Company (TCC) sells craft kits and supplies to retail outlets and through online sites such as Etsy.com. Some of the items are manufactured by TCC, while others are purchased for resale. For the products it manufactures, the company currently bases its selling prices on a product-costing system that accounts for direct material, direct labor, and the associated overhead costs. In addition to these product costs, TCC incurs substantial selling costs, and Roger Jackson, controller, has suggested that these selling costs should be included in the product pricing structure.

After studying the costs incurred over the past two years for one of its products, skeins of knitting yarn, Jackson has selected four categories of selling costs and chosen cost drivers for each of these costs. The selling costs actually incurred during the past year and the cost drivers are as follows:

Cost Category Amount Cost Driver
Sales commissions $ 945,000 Boxes of yarn sold to retail stores
Pay-per-click/Search engine optimization 390,420 Number of online leads
Cost of online sales 130,200 Skeins sold online
Credit and collection 91,800 Number of retail orders
Total selling costs $ 1,557,420

The knitting yarn is sold to retail outlets in boxes, each containing 12 skeins of yarn. The sale of partial boxes is not permitted. Commissions are paid on sales to retail outlets but not on online sales. The cost of online sales includes technology infrastructure costs and the wages of personnel who process the online orders. Jackson believes that the selling costs vary significantly with the size of the order. Order sizes are divided into three categories as follows:

Order Size Online Sales Retail Sales
Small 1 to 10 skeins 1 to 10 boxes
Medium 11 to 20 skeins 11 to 20 boxes
Large Over 20 skeins Over 20 boxes

An analysis of the previous years records produced the following statistics.

Items Order Size Total
Small Medium Large
Retail sales boxes (12 skeins per box) 4,500 66,000 192,000 262,500
Online sales, skeins 93,000 66,000 58,000 217,000
Number of retail orders 625 3,115 6,460 10,200
Number of online leads 315,150 333,330 132,360 780,840

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Prepare a schedule showing TCC's total selling cost for each order size and the per-skein selling cost within each order size. Note: Round your intermediate calculations and unit cost per order to 2 decimal places
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