Customer Profitability Analysis

FanGear, Inc. produces metal products for universities and colleges, including items such as trailer hitch covers and license plate holders with the institutions' logos and mascot likenesses, for sale by the institutions to their alumni and sports fans. FanGear produces these products in batches and uses a job costing system for determining the costs for completing each job. Each new batch requires a unique design, reconfiguring of dies and machinery to produce the product, and cleaning and maintenance of the machinery following the production run in preparation for the next batch. FanGear's CFO wants to implement an activity$-$based costing system for allocating overhead costs to each job. The accounting department staff have gathered the following activity cost pools and per$-$activity rates for the latest period:

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