Fitzgerald Supermarkets (FS) operates at capacity and decides to apply ABC analysis to three product lines: baked goods, milk and fruit juice, and frozen foods. It identifies four activities their activity cost rates as follows:
Ordering $95 per purchase order
Delivery and receipt of merchandise $76 per delivery
Shelf-stocking $19 per hour
Customer support and assistance $0.15 per item sold
The revenues, cost of goods sold, store support costs, activities that account for the store support costs, and activity-area usage of the three product lines are as follows:
Baked Goods Milk and Fruit Juice Frozen Products
Financial data
Revenues $60,000 $66,500 $50,500
Cost of goods sold $41,000 $51,000 $32,000
Store support $12,300 $15,300 $9,600
Activity-area usage (cost-allocation base)
Ordering (purchase orders) 44 24 14
Delivery (deliveries) 120 60 36
Shelf-stocking (hours) 170 150 20
Customer support (items sold) 15,400 20,200 7,960
Under its simple costing system, FS allocated support costs to products at the rate of 30% of the cost of goods sold.
Required:
1. Use the simple costing system to prepare a product-line profitability report for FS.
2. Use the ABC system to prepare a product-line profitability report for FS.
3. What new insights does the ABC system in requirement 2 provide to FS managers?
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