Refer to your calculations for Exercise 10.23. Your supervisor wants to know the costs to prepare a standard report and an executive report, including the cost of data, labor (which costs $40 per hour), and support services.

Required

a. For each type of report, prepare four different answers to this question: How much does it cost to produce?

b. Prepare a memo explaining to your supervisor why there are four different cost numbers for each report. Also indicate whether total costs are the same for Quality Credit Company regardless of the overhead allocation base used.

c. What do you recommend?