Required information The Ferre Publishing Company has three service departments and two operating departments. Selected data from a recent period on the five departments follow: e company allocates service department costs by the step-down method in the following order: Administration (number of iployees). Janitorial (space occupied), and Maintenance (hours of press time). quired: ing the step-down method, allocate the service department costs to the operating departments. (Please enter allocations from partment as negative and allocations to a department as positive. The line should add across to zero. Do not round ermediate calculations.)