Jon Hazel's business, Hazelwood Products Ltd, has expanded and now makes bookcases of different sizes. Instead of a single production department, Jon has found it more efficient to divide the work into separate stages and there are now three departments, each of which is a separate cost centre. The following information is available.

Complete the following production overhead analysis by showing the basis of apportionment and the overhead to be borne by each of the three production cost centres. The allocated overheads have been entered for you. Once you have arrived at a subtotal for all three cost centres, you must apportion the service costs for the maintenance department over the two production departments on whatever basis you consider appropriate.

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Area Number of employees Value of machinery Joinery department 200 sq metres 12 250,000 Finishing department 200 sq metres 16 100,000 Maintenance department 100 sq metres 4 50,000