ACTIVITY BASED COSTING Service Type Activity Driver Total Amount Auditing Tax Activity Cost Providing Accounting Billable hours 200 75 125 $ 30,000.00 Overhead costs: Internal support Dept Preparing documents docs 30 16 14 $ 4,000.00 Occupying office space hours 200 75 125 $ 1,200.00 Utilties hours 200 75 125 $ 350.00 External support departments Registering documentation docs 30 16 14 $ 1,250.00 Consultants days 6 5 1 $ 10,000.00 Contract services days 6 5 1 $ 5,000.00 Total overhead costs $ 51,800.00 Gotham Accounting Firm provides tax and auditing services to a variety of clients. Attorneys keep track of the time they spend on each case, which is used to charge fees to clients at a rate of $300 per hour. A management advisor commented that activity-based costing might prove useful in evaluating the costs of its services, and the firm has decided to evaluate its fee structure by comparing ABC to its alternative cost allocations. The following data relate to a typical month at the firm. During a typical month the firm handles seven mediation cases and three litigation cases. Required Determine the cost of providing services to each type of case using activity-based costing (ABC). Determine the cost of each type of case using a single plantwide rate for nonattorney costs based on billable hours. Determine the cost of each type of case using multiple departmental overhead rates for the internal support department (based on number of documents) and external support department (based on billable hours). Compare and discuss the costs assigned under each method for management decisions. COST VOLUME PROFIT Texon Co. manufactures and sells three products: product 1, product 2, and product 3. Their unit sales prices are product 1, $40; product 2, $30; and product 3, $14. The per unit variable costs to manufacture and sell these products are product 1, $30; product 2, $20; and product 3, $8. Their sales mix is reflected in a ratio of 6:3:5. Annual fixed costs shared by all three products are $200,000. One type of raw material has been used to manufacture products 1 and 2. The company has developed a new material of equal quality for less cost. The new material would reduce variable costs per unit as follows: product 1 by $10, and product 2, by $5. However, the new material requires new equipment, which will increase annual fixed costs by $50,000. Required If the company continues to use the old material, determine its break-even point in both sales units and sales dollars of each individual product. If the company uses the new material, determine its new break-even point in both sales units and sales dollars of each individual product. What insight does this analysis offer management for long-term planning? VARIABLE COSTING Navaroli Company began operations on January 5, 2014. Cost and sales information for its first two calendar years of operations are summarized be.