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Jackson Painting Paints the Interiors and Exteriors of Homes and Commercial

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Jackson Painting paints the interiors and exteriors of homes and commercial buildings.The company uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs.The company has provided the following data concerning its activity-based costing system.
The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs.
The company has already finished the first stage of the allocation process in which costs were allocated to the activity cost centers.The results are listed below:
Required:
a.Compute the activity rates (i.e. ,cost per unit of activity)for the Painting and Job Support activity cost pools.Round off all calculations to the nearest whole cent.
b.Prepare an action analysis report in good form of a job that involves painting 63 square meters and has direct materials and direct labor cost of $2,070.The sales revenue from this job is $2,500.
For purposes of this action analysis report,direct materials and direct labor should be classified as a Green cost;production overhead as a Red cost;and office expense as a Yellow cost.
 Activity Cost Pool  Activity Measure  Annual Activity  Production overhead......  Square meters 10,000 square meters  Job support.............  Jobs 320 jobs  Other  None  Not apolicable \begin{array}{lrr}\text { Activity Cost Pool } & \text { Activity Measure } & \text { Annual Activity } \\\text { Production overhead...... } & \text { Square meters } & 10,000 \text { square meters } \\\text { Job support............. }& \text { Jobs } & 320 \text { jobs } \\\text { Other } & \text { None } & \text { Not apolicable }\end{array}
 Painting  Job Support  Other  Total  Production overhead.... $54,000$42,000$24,000$120,000 Office expense .......... 16,00096,00048,000160,000 Total .................... $70.000$138,000$72,000$280.000\begin{array}{lrrrr} & \text { Painting } & \text { Job Support } & \text { Other } & \text { Total } \\\text { Production overhead.... } & \$ 54,000 & \$ 42,000 & \$ 24,000 & \$ 120,000 \\\text { Office expense .......... } &\underline{16,000}&\underline{96,000}{} & \underline{48,000}& \underline{160,000} \\\text { Total .................... } & \underline{\$ 70.000} &\underline{\$138,000}&\underline{\$72,000}&\underline{ \$ 280.000}\end{array}

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