STANDARD VIEW PRINTER VERSION 1 BACK NEXT Practice Problem 1 Lewis and Stark is a public accounting firm that offers two primary services, auditing and tax-return preparation. A controversy has developed between the partners of the two service lines as to who is contributing the greater amount to the bottom line. The area of contention is the assignment of overhead. The tax partners argue for assigning overhead on the basis of 40% of direct labor dollars, while the audit partners argue for implementing activity-based costing. The partners agree to use next year's budgeted, data for purposes of analysis and comparison. The following overhead data are collected to develop the comparison. Expected Use of Cost Drivers per Service Expected Use Estimated of Activity Cost Pools Cost Drivers Overhead Cost Drivers Audit Tax Employee training Direct labor dollars $212,400 $1,770,000 $1, 100,000 $670,000 Typing and secretarial Number of reports/forms 76,000 2,500 800 1,700 Computing Number of minutes 198,300 60,000 27,000 33,000 Facility rental Number of employees 140,000 40 22 18 Travel Per expense reports 81,300 Direct 56,000 25,300 $708,000 Using traditional product costing as proposed by the tax partners, compute the total overhead cost assigned to both services (audit and tax) of Lewis and Stark. Audit Tax Total overhead cost assignedBACK NEX Using activity-based costing, prepare a schedule showing the computations of the activity-based overhead rates (per cost driver). (Round overhead rate to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.) Estimated Activity Cost Pools Overhead Expected Use of Cost Drivers per Activity Activity-Based Overhead Rates Employee training Direct labor dollars per DL dollar Typing and secretarial Reports/forms per report/form Computing Minutes LA per minute Facility rental Employees per employee Travel Direct Direct Prepare a schedule assigning each activity's overhead cost pool to each service based on the use of the cost drivers. (Round overhead rate to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25 and cost assigned to 0 decimal places, e.g. 2,500.) Audit Tax Expected Use of Activity-Based Expected Use of Activity-Based Activity Cost Pool Cost Drivers Overhead Rates Cost Assigned Cost Drivers Overhead Rates Cost Assigned Employee training Typing and secretarial $ Computing $ Facility rental Direct Direct Travel Overhead costs assigned