Curtis & Company is an architectural firm specializing in home remodeling for private clients and new office buildings for corporate clients.

Curtis & Company charges customers at a billing rate equal to 135% of the client's total job cost. A client's total job cost is a combination of 1) professional cost based on the professional hours spent on the client's job, and 2) operating costs allocated to the client's job. Curtis currently allocates operating costs to jobs based on the number of professional hours spent on the job.

Curtis estimates its five professionals will work a total of 11,000 hours on client jobs during the year, and their salaries will total $1,210,000. All operating costs other than professional salaries (travel reimbursements, copy costs, secretarial salaries, office lease, etc.) can be grouped into three activities. Relevant information for these activities are estimated as follows:

	Total		Total Usage by	Total Usage by
Activity	Activity Cost	Cost Driver	Corporate Clients	Private Clients

Transportation to clients	$9,500	Round-trip mileage to clients	2,900 miles	11,500 miles
Blueprint copying	37,800	Number of copies	250 copies	600 copies
Office support	194,100	Secretarial time	2,500 hours	2,500 hours
Total operating costs	$241,400

Amy Lee hired Curtis & Company to design her kitchen remodeling. A total of 24 professional hours were spent on this job. In addition, Amy's remodeling job required one of the professionals to travel back and forth to her house for a total of 120 miles. The blueprints had to be copied four times because Amy changed the plans several times. In addition, 15 hours of secretarial time were used lining up the subcontractors for the job.

REQUIRED [ROUND ALL ALLOCATION RATES TO THE NEAREST CENT AND ALLOCATIONS TO THE NEAREST DOLLAR.] Part A [5 tries; 5 points] What is the total cost of Amy Lee's remodeling job under the current system?

Part B [5 tries; 5 points] What would be the total cost of Amy Lee's remodeling job under an activity-based costing system?