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A book shop retailer named 'Science' has two operating departments - corporate sales and consumer sales, and two support departments - human resources and information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently. The book shop uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2019: a) Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. [9 marks] b) Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the step-down method. Start with HR first. [9 marke]