Green Thumb Gardening is a small gardening service that uses activity-based costing to estimate costs for pricing and other purposes. The proprietor of the company believes that costs are driven primarily by the size of customer lawns, the size of customer garden beds, the distance to travel to customers, and the number of customers. In addition, the costs of maintaining garden beds depends on whether the beds are low maintenance beds (mainly ordinary trees and shrubs) or high maintenance beds (mainly flowers and exotic plants). Accordingly, the company uses the five activity cost pools listed below: Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure Caring for lawn Square feet of lawn Caring for garden beds–low maintenance Square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden beds–high maintenance Square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs Miles Customer billing and service Number of customers ________________________________________ The company has already completed its first stage allocations of costs and has summarized its annual costs and activity as follows: Activity Cost Pool Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity Caring for lawn $ 77,000 190,000 square feet of lawn Caring for garden beds–low maintenance $ 29,600 25,000 square feet of low maintenance beds Caring for garden beds–high maintenance $ 53,770 19,000 square feet of high maintenance beds Travel to jobs $ 4,200 16,000 miles Customer billing and service $ 8,700 24 customers ________________________________________ Required: Compute the activity rate for each of the activity cost pools. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
Activity Cost Pool Activity Rate
Caring for lawn per square foot of lawn
Caring for garden beds-low maintenance per square foot of low maintenance beds
Caring for garden beds-high maintenance per square foot of high maintenance beds
Travel to jobs per mile
Customer billing and service per customer