Friday 26 September 2014

Fogle Florist specializes in large floral bouquets for hotels and other commercial spaces. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system:

Fogle Florist specializes in large floral bouquets for hotels and other commercial spaces. The company has provided the following data concerning its annual overhead costs and its activity based costing system:

  Overhead costs:  
  Wages and salaries $128,000  
  Other expenses 64,000  
  Total
$192,000  

  Distribution of resource consumption:
   Activity Cost Pools  
   Making
Bouquets
Delivery Other Total
  Wages and salaries 60%     30%     10%     100%   
  Other expenses 45%     50%     5%     100%   

The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.

The amount of activity for the year is as follows:

  Activity Cost Pool Activity
  Making bouquets 57,390 bouquets  
  Delivery 12,500 deliveries  

What would be the total overhead cost per delivery according to the activity based costing system? In other words, what would be the overall activity rate for the deliveries activity cost pool?
$6.49
$5.20
$3.92
correct $5.63

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