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Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $23.95 per hundred square feet. However. there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customers - particularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owner's daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, she designed a simple system consisting four activity cost pools. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below: The total cost of operating the company for the year is $359,000 which includes the following costs: Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows: 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 600 square foot carpet-cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch-a 54 mile round-trip journey from the company's offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity-based costing system. 4. The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $143.70 (600 square feet &$23.95 per hundred square feet). Calculate the customer margin earned on this job. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Prepare'the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools

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