O books, an online book retailer, has two operating departmentscorporate sales and consumer salesand two support departmentshuman resources and information systems Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operation. independently, O 7 books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate infonnatlon systems costs The followmg data are available for September 2020 a (Click the icon to view the data) Read the @uirements Requirement't. Allocate the supportdepartments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method, (Do not round intermediary calculations Only round the amount you input in the input eld to the nearest dollar Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs Enter a "0" forany Zero balances Abbreviations used HR = Human resources, Info = Information) Support Departments Operating Departments HR Info. Systems Corporate Consumer Total Costs incurred Allocation 0' HR COSIS Allocation of Info System costs Total budgeted costs of operating departments Requirement 2. Rank the support departments based on the percentage of their services provided to other support departments Use this ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the stepdown method First, rank' from highest to lowest' the support departments based on the percentage of their servrces provided to other support departments (Round percentages to ve decimal places ) Support department Percentage \"/a \"/a Next, use this ranking to allocate the support departments costs to the operating departments based on the stepedown method. (Do not round intermediary calculations and round your nal answers to the nearest whole dollar Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs. Enter a "O" forany zero balances.) Next, use this ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the stepedown method, (Do not round intermediary calculations and round your nal answers to the nearest whole dollar Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs Enter a "O" for any zero balances) Support Departments Operating Departments HR Info. Systems Corporate Consumer Total costs that \"ed Total budgeted costs of operating departments Requirementa. How could you have ranked the support departments differently? You can rank 0 ibooks' support depaitments using an alternative approachranking based on the V Using the stepedown method, this approach would result in the followmg sequence Step 1 Step 2 Choose from any list or enter any number in the input elds and then continue to the next question. - X time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2020: Requirements 1. Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. 2. Rank the support departments based on the percentage of their services X provided to other support departments. Use this ranking to allocate the support Data Table departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down method. 3. How could you have ranked the support departments differently? A B C D E SUPPORT OPERATING DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENTS Human Information Corporate Consumer Print Done 2 Resources Systems Sales Sales Budgeted costs incurred before any 3 interdepartment cost allocations 20,000 $ 320,000 $ 950,000 $ 495,000 otal budgeted costs of operating departments Support work supplied by human 4 resources department Requirement 3. How could you have ranked the support departments differently? 5 Budgeted number of employees 0 20 48 32 Support work supplied by information ou can rank O - books' support departments using an alternative approach-ranking based on th 6 systems department Budgeted processing time (in sing the step-down method, this approach would result in the following sequence: 7 minutes) 280 0 1,750 1,470 Step 1: Step 2: Print Done hoose from any list or enter any number in the input fields and then continue to the next qu