Gallatin Carpet Cleaning is a small, family-owned business operating out of Bozeman, Montana. For its services, the company has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $23.75 per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is actually making any money on jobs for some customersparticularly those located on remote ranches that require considerable travel time. The owners daughter, home for the summer from college, has suggested investigating this question using activity-based costing. After some discussion, a simple system consisting of four activity cost pools seemed to be adequate. The activity cost pools and their activity measures appear below:

Activity Cost Pool	Activity Measure	Activity for the Year
Cleaning carpets	Square feet cleaned (00s)		10,000		hundred square feet
Travel to jobs	Miles driven		84,500		miles
Job support	Number of jobs		1,900		jobs
Other (costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs)	None		Not applicable

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $349,000, which includes the following costs:

Wages	$	142,000
Cleaning supplies		20,000
Cleaning equipment depreciation		12,000
Vehicle expenses		38,000
Office expenses		58,000
Presidents compensation		79,000
Total cost	$	349,000

Resource consumption is distributed across the activities as follows:

Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on Required 1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools Cleaning Carpets $ 112,180$ 15,620 Job Travel to Jobs Support Other Total Wages Cleaning supplies Cleaning equipment depreciation Vehicle expenses Office expenses President's compensation Total cost 14,200 142,000 20,000 12,000 38,000 58,000 79,000 56,870$106,310 $ 349,000 3,240 8,740 20,880 59,250 8,760 29,260 37,120 19,750 $ 120,940$44,880$ Job support consists of receiving calls from potential customers at the home office, scheduling jobs, billing, resolving issues, and so on Required 1. Prepare the first-stage allocation of costs to the activity cost pools Cleaning Carpets $ 112,180$ 15,620 Job Travel to Jobs Support Other Total Wages Cleaning supplies Cleaning equipment depreciation Vehicle expenses Office expenses President's compensation Total cost 14,200 142,000 20,000 12,000 38,000 58,000 79,000 56,870$106,310 $ 349,000 3,240 8,740 20,880 59,250 8,760 29,260 37,120 19,750 $ 120,940$44,880$