Exercise 7-8 (Algo) Computing and Interpreting Activity Rates [LO7-3] The operations vice president of Security Home Bank has been interested in investigating the efficiency of the bank's operations....

Extracted text: Exercise 7-8 (Algo) Computing and Interpreting Activity Rates [LO7-3] 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 opemtions 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 Assistant branch manager salary Branch manager salary $ 145,000 74,000 94,000 Total $ 313,000 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 Processing Deposits and Withdrawals Processing Opening Other Customer Other AccountS Transactions Activities Totals Teller wages Assistant branch manager salary Branch manager salary 5% 72% 16% 7% 100% 8% 14% 26% 528 100% 5% 0% 15% 808 100% The manager of the Westfield branch of Security Home Bank has provided the following data concerning the transactions of the < prev="" 6="" of="" 8="" next="">


Extracted text: 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 Processing Deposits and Other Customer Withdrawals Processing Opening Other Accounts Teller wages Transactions Activities Totals Assistant branch manager salary 72% 16% 7% 100% Branch manager salary 8% 14% 26% 52% 100% 5% 0% 15% 80% 100% The manager of the Westfield branch of Security Home Bank has provided the following data concerning the transactions of the branch during the past year: Activity Opening accounts Processing deposits and withdrawals Processing other customer transactions Total Activity at the Westfield Branch 185 new accounts opened 50,500 deposits and withdrawals processed 1,500 other customer transactions processed Required: 1. Compute the activity rates for the activity-based costing system. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate Opening accounts per account opened Processing deposits and withdrawals per deposit or withdrawal Processing other customer transactions per other customer transaction Prev 6 of 8 Next > 585