Quik Prints Company is a small printing and copying firm with three high-speed offset printing presses, five copiers(two color and three black and white) one collator, one cutting and folding machine, and one fax machine. To improve its pricing practices, owner-manager James Kieper is installing activity-based accounting. Additionally, James employs five employees: two printers/designers, one receptionist/bookkeeper, one sales person/copy-machine operator, and one janitor/delivery clerk. James can operate any of the machines and, in addition to managing the entire operation, he performs the training, designing, selling, and marketing funtions.
Instructions:
As Quik Prints independent accountant who prepares tax forms and quarterly financial statements, you have been asked to identify the activities that would be used to accumulate overhead costs for assignment to jobs and customers. Using your knowledge of a small printing and copying firm (and some imagination), identify at least twelve activity cost pools as the start of an activity-based costing system for Quik Prints Company.