Amiens Company manufactures both semimoist and dry dog food, with each type of dog food produced in separate departments. Three support departments support the production departments: Maintenance, General Factory, and Personnel. Budgeted data on the five de¬

partments are as follows:

The company does not break overhead into fixed and variable components.
Required:
1. Allocate the overhead costs to the producing departments using the direct method.
2. Using machine hours, compute departmental overhead rates.

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Maintenance Overhead Square feet Machine hours Number of employees $40,000 2,000 - 5 Support Departments Producing Departments General Factory Personnel Semimoist Dry $160,000 $60,000 $37,500 $22,500 3,000 6,750 8,250 1,000 500 8,000 12,000 13 7 15 25