Hotel & Casino is situated on beautiful Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The complex includes a 300-room hotel, a casino, and a restaurant. As 's new controller, your manager asks you to recommend the basis the hotel should use for allocating fixed overhead costs to the three divisions in . You are presented with the following income statement information for :

Martini Hotel \& Casino is situated on beautiful Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The complex includes a 300 -room hotel, a casino, and a restaurant. As Martini's new controller, your manager asks you to recommend the basis the hotel should use for allocating fixed overhead costs to the three divisions in 2020. You are presented with the following income statement information for 2019 . (Click the icon to view the data.) You are also given the following data on the three divisions. (Click the icon to view the data.) You are told that you may choose to allocate indirect costs based on one of the following: direct costs, floor space, or the number of employees. Total fixed overhead costs for 2019 wer $14,660,000. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Calculate division margins in percentage terms prior to allocating fixed overhead costs. (Round your answers to two decimal places, X.XX.) Allocate the indirect costs, then calculate the division operating margin in dollars and as a percentage of revenue for each segment. Requirements 1. Calculate division margins in percentage terms prior to allocating fixed overhead costs. 2. Allocate indirect costs to the three divisions using each of the three allocation bases suggested. For each allocation base, calculate division operating 3. Discuss the results. How would you decide how to allocate indirect costs to 3. Discuss the results. the divisions? Why? 4. Would you recommend closing any of the three divisions in the short run (and possibly reallocating resources to other divisions) as a result of your analysis? If so, which division would you close and why