E15-21 (book/static) Question Help E-books, an online book retailer, has two operating departmentscorporate sales and consumer sales-and two support departments-human resources and information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently. E books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2017 EE (Click the icon to view the data.) Read the requirements Requirement 1. Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. (Do not round intermediary calculations. Only round the amount you input in the cell to the nearest dollar. Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs. Enter a "O" for any zero balances Abbreviations used: HR Human resources; Info. Information.) Support Departments Operating Departments HR Info. Systems Corporate Consumer Total Costs incurred Allocation of HR costs Allocation of Info. System costs Total budgeted costs of operating departments Enter any number in the edit fields and then click Check Answer Data Table Support Departments Operating Departments Human Information Corporate Consumer Resources Systems Sales Sales Budgeted costs incurred before any interdepartment cost allocations Support work supplied by human resources department $72,700 $ 234,400 998,270 $ 489,860 Budgeted number of employees Support work supplied by information systems department 21 42 28 Budgeted processing time (in minutes) 320 1,920 1,600 Print Don