Computer Horizons Ltd. manufactures computers. The company has two corporate support departments (legal and personnel) in supporting each other and two manufacturing departments, the Laptop department and the Workstation department.
The overhead costs of support departments are allocated to the manufacturing departments.
Legal hours are used to allocate the cost of legal department, and personnel hours are used to allocate the cost of personnel department. The budgeted overhead costs and cost allocation bases are given below:

Required:

Report the total costs of the manufacturing departments (Laptop and Workstation) after the support departments’ (Legal and Personnel) costs have been allocated using each of the following methods:

Reciprocal Method

Support Departments Manufacturing Departments Legal Personnel Laptop Workstation Overhead Costs before any inter department cost allocations $9,055 $4,000 $240,000 $200,000 Support Work provided by Legal Department Legal hours Support work provided by Personnel Department Personnel hours 37 20 40 30 200 160