Q$2.$ PPLC Company has two support departments, SD$1$ and SD$2,$ and two operating departments, OD$1$ and OD$2.$ The company decided to use the direct method and allocate variable SD$1$ dept. costs based on the number of transactions and fixed SD$1$ dept. costs based on the number of employees. SD$2$ dept. variable costs will be allocated based on the number of service requests, and fixed costs will be allocated based on the number of computers. The following information is provided: $(4$ Marks$)($Chapter $8,$ Week $10)$