Q$3.$ ADLG Company has two support departments, SS$1$ and SS$2,$ and two operating departments, OD$1$ and OD$2.$ The company has decided to use the direct method and allocate variable SS$1$ dept. costs based on the number of transactions and fixed SS$1$ dept. costs based on the number of employees. SS$2$ 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 values have been extracted for the allocation: $(4$ Marks$)$

Support Departments Operating Departments

SS$1$ SS$2$ OD$1$ OD$2$

Total Department variable costs $16,00019,000105,00068,000$

Total department fixed costs $19,50034,000120,00055,000$

Number of transactions $5055250140$

Number of employees $18244738$

Number of service requests $37222632$

Number of computers $20253137$

You are required to allocate variable and fixed costs.Q$3.$ ADLG Company has two support departments, SS$1$ and SS$2,$ and two operating departments, OD$1$ and OD$2.$ The company has decided to use the direct method and allocate variable SS$1$ dept. costs based on the number of transactions and fixed SS$1$ dept. costs based on the number of employees. SS$2$ 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 values have been extracted for the allocation

$\backslash$table$[[,$Support Departments,Operating Departments$],[,$SS$1,$SS$2,$OD$1,],[$Total Department variable costs,$16,000,19,000,105,000,68,000],[$Total department fixed costs,$19,500,34,000,120,000,55,000],[$Number of transactions,$50,55,250,140],[$Number of employees,$18,24,47,38],[$Number of service requests,$37,22,26,32],[$Number of computers,$20,25,31,37]]$

You are required to allocate variable and fixed costs.