Exercise 24-2 Departmental expense allocation-spreadsheet LO P2

Marathon Running Shop has two service departments (advertising and administrative) and two operating departments (shoes and clothing). During 2015, the departments had the following direct expenses and occupied the following amount of floor space.

Department	Direct Expenses			Square Feet
Advertising	$	18,000			1,120
Administrative		25,000			1,400
Shoes		103,000			7,140
Clothing		15,000			4,340

The advertising department developed and distributed 120 advertisements during the year. Of these, 90 promoted shoes and 30 promoted clothing. The store sold $350,000 of merchandise during the year. Of this amount, $273,000 is from the shoes department, and $77,000 is from the clothing department. The utilities expense of $64,000 is an indirect expense to all departments.

Complete a departmental expense allocation spreadsheet for Marathon Running Shop. The spreadsheet should assign (1) direct expenses to each of the four departments, (2) the $64,000 of utilities expense to the four departments on the basis of floor space occupied, (3) the advertising departments expenses to the two operating departments on the basis of the number of ads placed that promoted a departments products, and (4) the administrative departments expenses to the two operating departments based on the amount of sales.