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Saratoga Company manufactures jobs to customer specifications. The company is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Purchasing Department to better understand how Purchasing Department labor costs are consumed by individual jobs. To aid the study, the company provided the following data regarding its Purchasing Department and three of its many jobs:

Number of employees		18
Average salary per employee	$	24,000
Weeks of employment per year		52
Hours worked per week		40
Practical capacity percentage		85	%
	Requisition Processing			Bid Evaluation	Inspection
Minutes per unit of the activity	15			45	30
	Job X			Job Y	Job Z
Number of requisitions processed	6			3	2
Number of bid evaluations	2			1	3
Number of inspections	5			1	5

Now assume that Saratoga Company would like to answer the following what if question using its time-driven activity-based costing system: Assuming our estimated activity demands for all jobs in the next period will be as shown below, how will this affect our job costs and our staffing levels within the Purchasing Department?

	Requisition Processing	Bid Evaluation	Inspection
Activity demands for all jobs	10,900	14,850	19,300

Required:

1. Will the revised activity demands affect the total Purchasing Department labor costs assigned to Job X, Job Y, and Job Z?

2. Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratogas used capacity in minutes.

3. Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratogas unused capacity in minutes.

4. Using the revised activity demands, calculate Saratogas unused capacity in number of employees. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

5. Based on the revised activity demands, calculate the impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand. (Be sure to round down your potential adjustment in the number of employees to a whole number. Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign.)

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Stahl Company is conducting a time-driven activity-based costing study in its Shipping Department. To aid the study, the company provided the following data regarding its Shipping Department and the customers served by the department:

Number of employees		20
Average salary per employee	$	42,000
Weeks of employment per year		52
Hours worked per week		40
Practical capacity percentage		80	%
	Line-Item Picking			Packaging	Loading Deliveries
Minutes per unit of the activity		5		15	30
	Customer L			Customer M	Customer N	All Customers
Number of line items picked		200		100	50	200,000
Number of boxes packaged		30		10	12	20,000
Number of deliveries loaded		6		2	10	10,000

Required:

1. Using the customer cost analysis as demonstrated in Exhibit 7A-2, compute the following:

a. The cost per minute of the resource supplied in the Shipping Department.

b. The time-driven activity rate for each of Stahls three activities.

c.The total labor costs consumed by Customer L, Customer M, and Customer N.

2. Using the capacity analysis as demonstrated in Exhibit 7A-3, compute the following:

a. The used capacity in minutes.

b. The unused capacity in minutes.

c. The unused capacity in number of employees.

d. The impact on expenses of matching capacity with demand.