Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawris, the size of customer garden beds the distance to travel to customers and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below. Activity Cost Pool Activity Base Caring for In Square feet of 1 Caring for garden beds-low maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden beds-high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs Customer billing and service Number of customers The company already has completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows: Miles Estimated Overhead Activity. Cost Pool Cost Expected Activity Caring for loun $ 79,400 180,000 square feet of lawn Caring for garden beds-low nintenance $ 32,00 24,000 square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden beds-high maintenance 5.48,70 Travel to jobs 18,000 square feet of high maintenance beds $3,400 15,000 miles Customer billing and service $.7.100 30 customers Required: Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Activity Rate Activity Cost Pool Caring for lawn Caring for garden beds-low maintenance Caring for garden beds-high maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service per square foot of lawn per square feet of low maintenance beds per square foot of high maintenance beds per mile per customer Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawrts, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds mainly flowers and exotic plants) Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Caring for lawn Square feet of lawn Caring for garden beds-low maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden beds-high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs Miles Customer billing and service Number of customers The company already has completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows: Activity Cost Pool Caring for low Caring for garden beds-low maintenance Caring for garden beds-high maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service Estimated Overhead Cost $ 79,400 $32,000 $ 48,780 $3,400 $ 7,100 Expected Activity 100,000 square feet of lawn 24,000 square feet of low maintenance beds 10,000 square feet of high maintenance beds 15,000 miles 30 customers Required: Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Activity Rate Activity Cost Pool Caring for lawn Caring for garden beds low maintenance Caring for garden beds Nigh maintenance Travel to jobs Customer billing and service per square foot of lawn per square feet of low maintenance beds per square feet of high maintenance beds permite per customer
