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.

$2.$ Compute the activity rates for the activity cost pools.

$3.$ The company recently completed a $600$ square foot carpet$-$cleaning job at the Flying N Ranch$$a $54-$mile round$-$trip journey from the company$$s offices in Bozeman. Compute the cost of this job using the activity$-$based costing system.

$4.$ The revenue from the Flying N Ranch was $$133\mathrm{.}20(600$ square feet @ $$22\mathrm{.}20$ per hundred square feet$).$ Calculate the customer margin earned on this job.