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PROBLEM IV (15 Points) The Thornes Cleaning Brigade Company provides housecleaning services to its clients. The company uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system. Activity Cost Pool Total Cost Cleaning..... $274, 170 Total Activity Job support ...... 99,066 48, 100 hours Client support .... 9,796 5,700 jobs Other ..... 110,000 620 clients Total .. $493.032 Not applicable The "Other" activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs. One particular client, the Lazzara family, requested 37 jobs during the year that required a total of 222 hours of housecleaning. For this service, the client was charged $2,350. Required: a. Using the activity-based costing system, compute the customer margin for the Lazzara family. Round off all calculations to the nearest whole cent. b. Assume the company decides instead to use a traditional costing system in which ALL costs are allocated to customers on the basis of cleaning hours. Compute the customer margin for the Lazzara family. Round off all calculations to the nearest whole cent.( a) = ( 6 ) (a ) (6 ) a) Activity pool Total Ack Cleaning 974, 170 48, 100 5.7 $/h Job Support 99 066 5, 700 17.38 $/ 1010 Client Support 9 /796 620 15. 3 5 / died lazzara family car (a) ( b) ( a) x ( b ) Act. Pool Act Rate Total hell Tor cost Cleaning 5. 7 292 1265 , 4 Job Supp 17 38 37 64 3.06 Chand Supp 15 8 15. 8 Sales 2,350 1265. 4 Job 643.06 151 3 1924. 26 CH 425. 74 6)