View Policies Show Attempt History Current Attempt in Progress 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. Estimated Use of Cost Drivers per Service Estimated Estimated Use of Activity Cost Pools Employee training Typing and secretarial Computing Cost Drivers Overhead Cost Drivers Direct labor dollars $214,800 $1,790,000 Audit $1,134,000 Tax Number of reports/forms 76,800 2,500 800 Number of minutes 199,200 60,000 27,000 Facility rental Number of employees 144,000 40 22 $656,000 1,700 33,000 18 Travel Per expense reports 81,200 Direct 56,000 25.300 $716,000