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Single and Dual Charging Rates Jeff McMillan owns a small neighborhood shopping mall. Of the 10 store spaces in the building, seven are rented by
Single and Dual Charging Rates
Jeff McMillan owns a small neighborhood shopping mall. Of the 10 store spaces in the building, seven are rented by boutique owners and three are vacant. Jeff has decided that offering more services to stores in the mall would enable him to increase occupancy. He has decided to use one of the vacant spaces to provide, at cost, a gift-wrapping service to shops in the mall. The boutiques are enthusiastic about the new service. Most of them are staffed minimally, which means that every time they have to wrap a gift, phones go unanswered and other customers in line grow impatient. Jeff figured that the gift-wrapping service would incur the following costs: the store space would normally rent for $2,000 per month, part-time gift wrappers could be hired for $1,400 per month, and wrapping paper and ribbon would average $1.20 per gift. The boutique owners estimated the following number of gifts to be wrapped per month.
Store | Number of Gifts Wrapped per Month |
The Stationery Station | 175 |
Arts & Collectibles | 400 |
Kid-Sports | 100 |
Java Jim's | 75 |
Designer Shoes | 20 |
Cristina's Closet | 130 |
Alan's Drug and Sundries | 100 |
After the service had been in effect for six months, Jeff calculated the following actual average monthly number of gifts wrapped for each of the stores.
Store | Actual Average Number of Gifts Wrapped per Month |
The Stationery Station | 160 |
Arts & Collectibles | 420 |
Kid-Sports | 240 |
Java Jim's | 10 |
Designer Shoes | 50 |
Cristina's Closet | 200 |
Alan's Drug and Sundries | 450 |
Required:
1. Calculate a single charging rate, on a per-gift basis, to be charged to the shops. If required, round your final answer to the nearest cent. $fill in the blank 1 per gift
Based on the shops' actual number of gifts wrapped, how much would be charged to each shop using the single charging rate?
Store | Total Charge |
The Stationery Station | $fill in the blank 2 |
Arts & Collectibles | fill in the blank 3 |
Kid-Sports | fill in the blank 4 |
Java Jim's | fill in the blank 5 |
Designer Shoes | fill in the blank 6 |
Cristina's Closet | fill in the blank 7 |
Alan's Drug and Sundries | fill in the blank 8 |
2. Based on the shops' actual number of gifts wrapped, how much would be charged to each shop using the dual charging rate? If required, round the allocation percentages to 4 decimal places and round your computed allocation amount to the nearest cent.
Store | Total Charge |
The Stationery Station | $fill in the blank 9 |
Arts & Collectibles | fill in the blank 10 |
Kid-Sports | fill in the blank 11 |
Java Jim's | fill in the blank 12 |
Designer Shoes | fill in the blank 13 |
Cristina's Closet | fill in the blank 14 |
Alan's Drug and Sundries | fill in the blank 15 |
3. Which shops would prefer the single charging rate? Why?
- The Stationery Station
- Arts & Collectibles
- Kid-Sports
- Java Jim's
- Designer Shoes
- Cristina's Closet
- Alan's Drug and Sundries
a, b and ca and db, e and fd, f and g
In the single rate method, fixed costs are included in the rate based on
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usage. The single charging rate assigns less of the fixed cost to the shops using
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of the service.
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