Activity-Based Customer Costing

Sleepeze Company produces mattresses for 20 retail outlets. Of the 20 retail outlets, 19 are small, separately owned furniture stores and one is a retail chain. The retail chain buys 60% of the mattresses produced. The 19 smaller customers purchase mattresses in approximately equal quantities, where the orders are about the same size. Data concerning Sleepezes customer activity are as follows:

	Large Retailer		Smaller Retailers
Units purchased	108,000		72,000
Orders placed	36		3,600
Number of sales calls	18		882
Manufacturing costs	$43,200,000		$28,800,000
Order filling costs allocated*	$1,690,740		$1,127,160
Sales force costs allocated*	$837,000		$558,000
*Currently allocated on sales volume (units sold).

Currently, customer-driven costs are assigned to customers based on units sold, a unit-level driver.

Required:

Assign costs to customers by using an ABC approach. Round your answers and all intermediate calculations to the nearest dollar.

Order filling rate	$fill in the blank 1 per order
Selling call rate	$fill in the blank 2 per sales call
Cost assignment:
Large retailer	$fill in the blank 3
Smaller retailers	$fill in the blank 4

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