Duda Clinic uses the step-down method to allocate service department costs to operating departments. The clinic has two service departments, Personnel and Information Technology (IT), and two operating departments, Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. Data concerning those departments follow:

	Service Department		Operating Department
	Personnel	IT	Family Medicine	Geriatric Medicine
Departmental costs	$ 86,088	$ 28,200	$ 329,090	$ 146,490
Employees	19	25	190	207
PCs	20	26	74	148

Personnel costs are allocated first on the basis of employees and IT costs are allocated second on the basis of PCs.

The total Geriatric Medicine Department cost after allocations is closest to:

	$167,884
	$189,049
	$210,918
	$210,912