Support Department Cost AllocationDirect 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 and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 14 and 56 trees, respectively, in them at 1 time. The company also estimates that the cutting process requires about 9 times as many machine hours as the pruning process. The total costs of each department are as follows:

Maintenance Department	$7,000
Janitorial Department	4,000
Cutting Department	52,000
Pruning Department	10,000

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 Department	Pruning Department
Production departments total costs