Cost Accounting

Woodland Hotels, Inc., operates four resorts in the heavily wooded areas of northern California. The resorts are named after the predominant trees at the resort: Pine Valley, Oak Glen, Mimosa, and Birch Glen. Woodland allocates its central office costs to each of the four resorts according to the annual revenue the resort generates. For the current year, the central office costs (000s omitted) were as follows:

Front office personnel (desk, clerks, etc.)	$	9,500
Administrative and executive salaries		5,500
Interest on resort purchase		4,500
Advertising		1,350
Housekeeping		3,500
Depreciation on reservations computer		830
Room maintenance		950
Carpet-cleaning contract		80
Contract to repaint rooms		550
Costs to be allocated	$	26,760

	Pine Valley		Oak Glen		Mimosa		Birch Glen		Total
Revenue (000s)	$	6,850	$	9,495	$	9,007	$	9,550	$	34,902
Square feet		56,975		78,099		43,274		85,164		263,512
Rooms		101		137		81		189		508
Assets (000s)	$	93,845	$	138,245	$	73,855	$	58,999	$	364,944

Required:

1)Based on annual revenue, what amount of the central office costs are allocated to each resort? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in thousands rounded to the nearest dollar.) 2)Suppose that the current method were replaced with a system of four separate cost pools with costs collected in the four pools allocated on the basis of revenues, assets invested in each resort, square footage, and number of rooms, respectively. Which costs should be collected in each of the four pools? (Enter your answers in thousands of dollars.) 3)Using the cost pool system in requirement 2, how much of the central office costs would be allocated to each resort? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in thousands rounded to the nearest dollar.)