Activity-based budgeting. The Chelsea store of Family Supermarket (FS), a chain of small neighborhood grocery stores, is preparing its activity-based budget for January 2008. FS has three product categories; soft drinks, fresh produce, and packaged food. The following table shows the four activities that consume indirect resources at the Chelsea store, the cost drivers and their rates, and the cost-driver amount budgeted to be consumed by each activity in January 2008.

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1. What is the total budgeted indirect cost at the Chelsea store in January 2008? What is the total budgeted cost of each activity at the Chelsea store for January 2008? What is the budgeted indirect cost of each product category for January 2008?

2. Which product category has the largest fraction of total budgeted indirect costs?

3. Given your answer in requirement 2, what advantage does FS gain by using an activity-based approach to budgeting over, say, allocating indirect costs to products based on cost of goods sold?

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January 2008 Budgeted Cost-Driver Rate $90 $82 $21 $ 0.18 January 2008 Budgeted Amount of Cost Driver Used Soft Drinks Fresh Packaged Cost Driver Number of purchase orders Number of deliveries Hours of stocking time Number of items sold Food Activity 4 Ordering Produce 24 62 172 34,200 14 19 94 10,750 14 12 16 4,600 5 Delivery 6 Shelf-stocking 7 Customer support