ACCT 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cookhouse
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| Prepare the first-stage allocation for the activity-based costing study. |
The operations vice president of Security Home Bank has been interested in investigating the efficiency of the bank’s operations. She has been particularly concerned about the costs of handling routine transactions at the bank and would like to compare these costs at the bank’s various branches. If the branches with the most efficient operations can be identified, their methods can be studied and then replicated elsewhere. While the bank maintains meticulous records of wages and other costs, there has been no attempt thus far to show how those costs are related to the various services provided by the bank. The operations vice president has asked your help in conducting an activity-based costing study of bank operations. In particular, she would like to know the cost of opening an account, the cost of processing deposits and withdrawals, and the cost of processing other customer transactions. The Westfield branch of Security Home Bank has submitted the following cost data for last year:
Teller wages $ 160,000 Assistant branch manager salary 75,000 Branch manager salary 80,000 Total $ 315,000
Virtually all other costs of the branch—rent, depreciation, utilities, and so on—are organization- sustaining costs that cannot be meaningfully assigned to individual customer transactions such as depositing checks. In addition to the cost data above, the employees of the Westfield branch have been interviewed concerning how their time was distributed last year across the activities included in the activity-based costing study. The results of those interviews appear below:
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities
| Opening Accounts | Processing Deposits and Withdrawals | Processing Other Customer Transactions | Other Activities | Totals | |||||||
| Teller wages | 5 | % | 65 | % | 20 | % | 10 | % | 100 | % | |
| Assistant branch manager salary | 15 | % | 5 | % | 30 | % | 50 | % | 100 | % | |
| Branch manager salary | 5 | % | 0 | % | 10 | % | 85 | % | 100 | % | |
The operations vice president of First Bank of Eagle, KristinWu, has been interested in investigating the efficiency of thebank’s operations. She has been particularly concerned about thecosts of handling routine transactions at the bank and would liketo compare these costs at the bank’s various branches. If thebranches with the most efficient operations can be identified,their methods can be studied and then replicated elsewhere. Whilethe bank maintains meticulous records of wages and other costs,there has been no attempt thus far to show how those costs arerelated to the various services provided by the bank. Ms. Wu hasasked your help in conducting an activity-based costing study ofbank operations. In particular, she would like to know the cost ofopening an account, the cost of processing deposits andwithdrawals, and the cost of processing other customertransactions. |
| The Avon branch of First Bank ofEagle has submitted the following cost data for last year: |
| Teller wages | $ | 157,000 |
| Assistant branchmanager salary | 61,000 | |
| Branch managersalary | 92,000 | |
| Total | $ | 310,000 |
Virtually all of the other costsof the branch—rent, depreciation, utilities, and so on—areorganization-sustaining costs that cannot be meaningfully assignedto individual customer transactions such as depositing checks. |
In addition to the cost dataabove, the employees of the Avon branch have been interviewedconcerning how their time was distributed last year across theactivities included in the activity based costing study. Theresults of those interviews appear below: |
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities | |||||||||||
| Opening Accounts | Processing Deposits and Withdrawals | Processing Other Customer Transactions | Other Activities | Totals | |||||||
| Teller wages | 0 | % | 67 | % | 11 | % | 22 | % | 100 | % | |
| Assistant branchmanager salary | 10 | % | 19 | % | 27 | % | 44 | % | 100 | % | |
| Branch managersalary | 0 | % | 0 | % | 16 | % | 84 | % | 100 | % | |
| Required: |
Prepare the first-stage allocation for Ms. Wu. (Leave nocells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Omit the"$" sign in your response.) |
Distribution of Resource Consumption Across Activities | |||||
| Opening Accounts | Processing Deposits and Withdrawals | Processing Other Customer Transactions | Other Activities | Totals | |
| Teller wages | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ |
| Assistant branchmanager salary | |||||
| Branch managersalary | |||||
| Total cost | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ |
