State Financial Corp. has three service departments (Administration, Communications, and Facilities), and two production departments (Deposits and
Question:
The costs of the service departments are allocated on the following bases: Administration, employee-hours; Communications, number of employees; and Facilities, square footage occupied.
Required
Round all final calculations to the nearest dollar.
a. Assume that the bank elects to distribute service department costs to production departments using the direct method. What amount of Communications Department costs is allocated to the Deposits Department?
b. Assume the same method of allocation as in requirement (a). What amount of Administration Department costs is allocated to the Loans Department?
c. Assuming that the bank elects to distribute service department costs to other departments using the step method (starting with Facilities and then Communications), what amount of Facilities Department costs is allocated to the Communications Department?
d. Assume the same method of allocation as in requirement (c). What amount of Communication Department costs is allocated to Facilities?
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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
ISBN: 978-1259565403
5th edition
Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher