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Manufacturing Company produces electronic components on a job order basis. Most business is gained through bidding on jobs. Most firms competing with

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bid full cost plus a

3030 %

markup. Recently, with the expectation of gaining more sales,

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dropped its markup from 40% to

3030 %.

The company operates two service departments and two production departments. Manufacturing overhead costs and quantities of activities for each department are shown here:

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The firm is preparing to bid on job 781, which requires three machine hours per unit produced in the machining department and five direct labor hours per unit produced in the assembly department. The expected direct materials and direct labor costs per unit are

$ 450$450.

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Requirements

(a)	Allocate the service department costs to the production departments using the direct method.
(b)	Determine the bid price per unit produced for job 781 using the direct method.
(c)	Assume that the costs of the service department incurring the greatest costs are allocated first, and allocate the service department costs to the production departments using the sequential method. When allocating personnel costs, assume the maintenance department has 0 employees.
(d)	Determine the bid price per unit produced for job 781 using the sequential method in part c.

Service Departments Production Departments Item Personnel Maintenance Machining Assembly Overhead costs $ 100,000 $ 200,000 $ 400,000 $ 300,000 Number of employees 5 5 5 40 Maintenance hours 1,500 200 7,500 1,000 Machine hours 0 0 10,000 1,000 Direct labor hours 0 0 1,000 10,000 Costs of the personnel department are allocated on the basis of employees and those of the maintenance department on the basis of maintenance hours. Departmental rates are used to assign costs to products. The machining department uses machine hours, and the assembly department uses direct labor hours for this purpose.

Requirement (a) Allocate the service department costs to the production departments using the direct method.

Begin by allocating the service department costs to the production departments using the direct method. (Round ratio calculations to two decimal places, .XX, and your final answers to the nearest whole dollar. Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs. Complete all answer boxes.)

	Service departments		Production departments
Direct Method	Personnel	Maintenance	Machining	Assembly
OverheadCosts	$100,000	$200,000	$400,000	$300,000
Allocation of personnel costs
Allocation of maintenance costs
Closing balance