Prepare schedule assigning each activitys overhead cost pool

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Problem

Lewis and Stark is a public accounting firm that offers two primary services, auditing and tax-return preparation. A controversy has developed between the partners of the two service lines as to who is contributing the greater amount to the bottom line. The area of contention is the assignment of overhead. The tax partners argue for assigning overhead on the basis of 40% of direct labor dollars, while the audit partners argue for implementing activity-based costing. The partners agree to use next year's budgeted data for purposes of analysis and comparison. The following overhead data are collected to develop the comparison.

				Expected Use of Cost Drivers per Service
Activity Cost Pools	Cost Drivers	Estimated Overhead	Expected Use of Cost Drivers	Audit	Tax
Employee training	Direct labor dollars	$250,250	$1,787,500	$1,105,000	$682,500
Typing and secretarial	Number of reports/forms	76,400	2,500	800	1,700
Computing	Number of minutes	164,050	60,000	27,000	33,000
Facility rental	Number of employees	143,000	40	22	18
Travel	Per expense reports	81,300	Direct	56,000	25,300
		$715,000

Using traditional product costing as proposed by the tax partners, compute the total overhead cost assigned to both services (audit and tax) of Lewis and Stark.

A: Using traditional product costing as proposed by the tax partners, compute the total overhead cost assigned to both services (audit and tax) of Lewis and Stark.

B: Using activity-based costing, prepare a schedule showing the computations of the activity-based overhead rates (per cost driver).

C: Prepare a schedule assigning each activity's overhead cost pool to each service based on the use of the cost drivers.

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