Support departments are directly involved in the production process, but provide no services

necessary for making products. None of the direct costs of a support department are traced to the

department, and indirect general factory overhead is not distributed to the support department.

Only indirect support department costs are considered indirect costs $($manufacturing overhead$)$ of

production, but these costs are never allocated to the production departments.

A$.$ True

B$.$ False: Support departments are not directly involved in the production process, but provide

services necessary for making products.

C$.$ False: All of the direct costs of a support department are traced to the department, and indirect

general factory overhead is distributed to the support department.

D$.$ False: Both direct and indirect support department costs are considered indirect costs

$($manufacturing overhead$)$ of production, and these costs are subsequently allocated to the

production departments.

E$.$ B$,$ C$,$ and D