Columbus Clinical Services (a multispecialty group practice) has three support departments, Administration, Housekeeping and Finance, and three patient services departments, Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy. Administration provides the most services to other departments followed by Housekeeping and then Finance. The results of a step-down cost allocation for Cherry Community Hospital are presented below:

Administration Costs Allocated to:

Housekeeping$2,000

Finance$1,000

Medicine$4,000

Surgery$5,000

Pharmacy$2,000

Housekeeping Costs Allocated to:

Finance$1,000

Medicine$4,500

Surgery$8,000

Pharmacy$2,500

Finance Costs Allocated to:

Medicine$7,000

Surgery$9,000

Pharmacy$3,000

Given the information above, what were total direct costs (the original cost pool) for the Finance Department?

$21,000

$17,000

$19,000

$14,000

$16,000