1.	What is the total budgeted indirect cost at the Elmore store in January 2018? What is the total budgeted cost of each activity at the Elmore store for January 2018? What is the budgeted indirect cost of each product category for January 2018?
3.	Given your answer in requirement 2, what advantage does Maclin's Corner gain by using an activity-based approach to budgeting over, say, allocating indirect costs to products based on cost of goods sold?

The Elmore store of Maclin's Corner, a chain of small neighborhood convenience stores, is preparing its activity-based budget for January 2018. Maclin's Corner has three product categories: soft drinks (35% of cost of goods sold (COGS]), fresh produce (25% of COGS), and packaged food (40% of COGS). The following table shows the four activities that consume indirect resources at the Elmore 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 activity and cost-driver information.) Read the requirements . Requirement 1. What is the total budgeted indirect cost at the Elmore store in January 2018? What is the total budgeted cost of each activity at the Elmore store for January 2018? What is the budgeted indirect cost of each product category for January 2018? Complete the following table to determine the total budgeted indirect cost, total budgeted cost of each activity, and budgeted indirect cost of each product category for January 2018. (Round the percentages to the nearest hundredth percent, X.XX%.) Soft Fresh Packaged Drinks Snacks Food Total Data Table Ordering Delivery Shelf-stocking January 2018 January 2018 Budgeted Budgeted Amount of Cost Driver Used Customer support Cost-Driver Soft Fresh Packaged Total costs Cost Driver Rate Drinks Snacks Food Percentage of total indirect costs % Ordering Number of purchase orders $ 86 29 14 Delivery Number of deliveries $ 85 10 68 20 Shelf-stocking Hours of stocking time $ 24.00 19 178 98 Customer support Number of items sold $ 0.17 4,100 34,100 11,000 Activity % 14 Print Done