Miljohn Freelancing provides different services to its clients. The company uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system. Activity Cost Pool Total Cost Total Activity Consulting 368,364 36,250 hours Bookkeeping 142,500 8,100 jobs Client support 37,620 680 clients Other 220,000 Not Applicable The “Other” activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs. One particular client, Adams Corporation requested 24 jobs during the year that required a total of 31 hours of service. For this service, the client was charged P1,750. Compute the increase/(decrease) in margin assuming Miljohn Freelancing decides to use traditional costing system in which all costs are allocated to customer on the basis of the number of jobs

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Miljohn Freelancing provides different services to its clients. The company uses an activity-based costing system for its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system.

Activity Cost Pool             Total Cost            Total Activity

Consulting                           368,364              36,250 hours

Bookkeeping                       142,500               8,100 jobs

Client support                       37,620                680 clients

Other                                  220,000                Not Applicable

The “Other” activity cost pool consists of the costs of idle capacity and organization-sustaining costs. One particular client, Adams Corporation requested 24 jobs during the year that required a total of 31 hours of service. For this service, the client was charged P1,750.

Compute the increase/(decrease) in margin assuming Miljohn Freelancing decides to use traditional costing system in which all costs are allocated to customer on the basis of the number of jobs

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