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Company ABC has two service department, Maintenance and Personnel. Maintenance Department costs of 320,000 are allocated on the basis of budged maintenance-hours. Personnel Department cost

  1. Company ABC has two service department, Maintenance and Personnel. Maintenance Department costs of 320,000 are allocated on the basis of budged maintenance-hours. Personnel Department cost of $80,000 are allocated based on the number of employees. The costs of operating department A and B are $160,000 and 24,000, respectively. Data on budgeted maintenance-hours and number of employees are follows:

Support department Production department

Maintenance

Personnel

A

B

Budgeted costs

320,000

80,000

160,000

240,000

Budgeted maintenance-hours

N/A

800

960

640

Number of employees

40

N/A

160

480

Using step down method, what amount of Maintenance Department cost will be allocated to Department A and Department B?

  1. 160,000;96,000; and 64,000
  2. 106,000; 128,000 and 85,000
  3. 160,000 250,000 and 64,000
  4. 160,000:100,000 and 96,000

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