a) Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method.(b) Rank the support departments based on the percentage of their services provided to other support departments. (c) Use the above ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down method.(d) How could you have ranked the support departments differently? ?????_c) Use the above ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down method.d) How could you have ranked the support departments differently?c) Use the above ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down method.

Question 3 15 Marks Hudson Books, an online book retailer. has two operating departments corporate sales and consumer sales - and two support departments - human resources and information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently. Hudson Books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available fer September 2019. Support Departments Operating Departments lnforrnation Corporate Consumer Resources Systems Sales Budgeted costs incurred $72,?00 $234,000 $998,270 $489,860 before any inter department I... Support work supplied by ---- Budgeted number of 21 employees Support work supplied by information systems department Budgeted processing time (in 1,920 minutes)