Support Department Cost Allocation-Direct Method Christmas Timber, Inc., produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performed throughout the production process by nonproduction employees. Maintenance janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each department, respectively. The com estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 18 and 72 trees, respectively, in them at 1 time. The compan also estimates that the cutting process requires about 9 times as many machine hours as the pruning process. The total costs each department are as follows: Maintenance Department $6,000 Janitorial Department 6,000 Cutting Department 57,000 Pruning Department 11,000 Using the direct method of support department cost allocation, determine the total cost of each production department after allocating all support costs to the production departments. Cutting Pruning Department Accounting numeric field Production departments total costs $ 6,400 X $ T4,600 Feddback