Monday 29 October 2018

Thermal Rising, Inc., makes paragliders for sale through specialty sporting goods stores. The company has a standard paraglider model, but also makes custom-designed paragliders. Management has designed an activity-based costing system with the following activity cost pools and activity rates:

Thermal Rising, Inc., makes paragliders for sale through specialty sporting goods stores. The company has a standard paraglider model, but also makes custom-designed paragliders. Management has designed an activity-based costing system with the following activity cost pools and activity rates:

Activity Cost PoolActivity Rate
Supporting direct labor$26per direct labor-hour
Order processing$284per order
Custom design processing$186per custom design
Customer service$379per customer


Management would like an analysis of the profitability of a particular customer, Big Sky Outfitters, which has ordered the following products over the last 12 months:

 Standard
Model
Custom
Design
Number of gliders 20 3
Number of orders 1 3
Number of custom designs 0 3
Direct labor-hours per glider 26.35 28.00
Selling price per glider$1,850$2,400
Direct materials cost per glider$564$634


The company’s direct labor rate is $19.50 per hour.

Required:
Using the company’s activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin of Big Sky Outfitters.

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