As a large organization that provides a variety of services for its regional member clubs, LMU continually strives to

better understand its own profitability. LMU has four key support services to assist its members: Member Services,

Social Media, Resource Deployment, and Administrative Services. These four support departments exist for the benefit

of the three operating segments, which are organized geographically: East, Central, and West. While the support

services primarily assist the operating segments, they also cross over and assist each other. The services offered by the

support departments, along with the original cost of each support department, are as follows.

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Your Answer

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Using the direct method, allocate the support services costs to the operating segments, showing the total support

costs that each operating segment will be accountable for as your final result. $($RRound ansmers to $2$ deciimal

places, eg$.15\mathrm{.}25.)$

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Solution

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Using the reciprocal method in Excel, allocate the support costs to the operating segments, showing the total

support costs that that each operating segment will be accountable for as your final result. $($Round answers to $2$

decinal places, es $15\mathrm{.}25.$J