Customer profitability analysisroland, inc. provides residential painting services for three home building companies, alpha, beta, and gamma, and it uses a job costing system for determining the costs for completing each job. the job cost system does not capture any cost incurred by roland for return touchups and refinishes after the homeowner occupies the home. roland paints each house on a square footage contract price, which includes painting as well as all refinishes and touchups required after the homes are occupied. each year, roland generates about one-third of its total revenues and gross profits from each of the three builders. roland has observed that the builders, however, require substantially different levels of support following the completion of jobs. the following data have been gathered: support activity driver costs per driver unitmajor refinishes hours on job $20touchups number of visits $110communication number of calls $10builder major refinishes touchups communicationalpha 80 150 360beta 35 110 205gamma 42 115 190(a) assuming that each of the three customers produces gross profits of $100,000, calculate the profitability from each builder after taking into account the support activity required for each builder. alpha$answerbeta$answergamma$answer

During january 2018, the following transactions occur: january 1 purchase equipment for $20,600. the company estimates a residual value of $2,600 and a five-year service life. january 4 pay cash on accounts payable, $10,600. january 8 purchase additional inventory on account, $93,900. january 15 receive cash on accounts receivable, $23,100 january 19 pay cash for salaries, $30,900. january 28 pay cash for january utilities, $17,600. january 30 firework sales for january total $231,000. all of these sales are on account. the cost of the units sold is $120,500. the following information is available on january 31, 2018. depreciation on the equipment for the month of january is calculated using the straight-line method. the company estimates future uncollectible accounts. at the end of january, considering the total ending balance of the accounts receivable account as shown on the general ledger tab, $4,100 is now past due (older than 90 days), while the remainder of the balance is current (less than 90 days old). the company estimates that 50% of the past due balance will be uncollectible and only 3% of the current balance will become uncollectible. record the estimated bad debt expense. accrued interest revenue on notes receivable for january. unpaid salaries at the end of january are $33,700. accrued income taxes at the end of january are $10,100

Why are the four primary service outputs of spatial convenience, lot size, waiting time, and product variety important to logistics management? provide examples of competing firms that differ in the level of each service output provided to customers?

Kevin and jenny, who are both working full-time, have three children all under the age of ten. the two youngest children, who are three and five years old, attended eastside pre-school for a total cost of $3,000. ervin, who is nine, attended big kid daycare after school at a cost of $2,000. jenny has earned income of $15,000 and kevin earns $14,000. what amount of childcare expenses should be used to determine the child and dependent care credit?