1.	What are the total budgeted costs for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2018 ?
2.	What are the benefits of using a Kaizen approach to budgeting? What are the limitations of this approach, and how might Family Mart management overcome them?

The Rupert store of Family Mart, a chain of small neighborhood convenience stores, has a Kaizen (continuous improvement) approach to budgeting monthly activity costs for each month of 2018. Family Mart has three product categories: soft drinks (35% of cost of goods sold [COGS), fresh snacks (25% of COGS), and packaged food (40% of COGS). The following table shows the four activities that consume indirect resources at the Rupert store, the cost drivers and their rates, and the cost-driver amount budgeted to be consumed by each activity in January 2018. ? Click the icon to view the our activities and their cost data. O click the icon to view additional cost driver in a n Read the requirements. Requirement 1. What are the total budgeted costs for each activity and the total budgeted indirect cost for March 2018? Begin by calculating the budgeted cost-driver rates for February, then calculate March. (Round your answers to five decimal places, X.Xxxxx.) Budgeted Cost-Driver Rates Activity January FebruaryMarch Ordering Delivery Shelf-stocking Customer support 90.00 80.00 22.00 0.21