Question 1 RRB has 'Know Your Customer' (KYC) procedures for their retail customers and corporate customers; the procedures are (i) Customer Identification Program (CIP), (ii) Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and (iii) Ongoing Monitoring. RRB currently uses the following cost-allocation rate per procedure, based on the following cost drivers used as the allocation base for the previous year: Table 1 - Cost-allocation rate KYC procedures Cost driver used as allocation base CIP Applications (potential customers) CDD Applications (potential customers) Ongoing Monitoring Ongoing customers Quantity 1,200 1,200 35,000 Cost-allocation rate $54 $125 $57 Currently, there has been much discussion regarding how much each procedure costs for each activity for retail customers and corporate customers. The accounting department has provided a breakdown for costs for each type of customer and procedure from the previous year. Table 2 - Costs of procedures per type of customer KYC procedures Retail customers Corporate customers Total CIP $50,000 $15,000 $65,000 CDD $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Ongoing Monitoring $750,000 $1,250,000 $2,000,000 Total costs $850,000 $1,365,000 $2,215,000 The manager responsible for corporate customers, Jules De Martino, is concerned there is a product-cost cross-subsidisation. As an example, he argues the cost-allocation rate of $54 regarding CIP used for his corporate customers is artificially high because of the costs of CIP for retail customers. The manager responsible for retail customers, Katie White, argues exactly the opposite, that the corporate customers are the one pushing the cost-allocation rate higher, because, when compared to the retail customers, they are few applications in numbers. The commercial department has the breakdown of applications (potential customers) and ongoing customers from the previous year. Table 3 - Customers KYC procedures CIP CDD Ongoing Monitoring Retail customers Corporate customers | Total customers 1,000 200 1,200 1,000 200 1,200 30,000 5,000 35,000 Required a) Calculate the cost rate per unit of the cost driver for each KYC procedure for retail customers and corporate customers. (Chapter 11, 5 marks) b) Explain whether there is evidence of product-cost cross-subsidisation between retail customers and corporate customers. (Chapter 11, 5 marks)