Three restaurants in a downtown area of a large city have decided to share a valet service and parking lot for their customers. The cost of the service and lot is $10,000 per month. The owners of the restaurants need to decide how to divide the $10,000 cost. The actual usage, planned usage, and practical capacity in the month of May was:

Restaurant	Actual Parking Spots Used	Planned Parking Spots	Practical Capacity Parking Spots
Harbourfest	1,500	1,600	2,000
Cove Seafood	1,400	1,300	1,500
Davids Dishes	1,300	1,100	1,500

Required

1. Allocate the fixed cost to each restaurant using actual, planned and capacity usage measures. (6 marks)
2. In this situation, which method of allocation makes the most sense? Explain why? (2 marks)

Templetons Ts Ltd. designs and manufactures T-shirts with slogans. The company has two production departments: Sewing and Stamping. The quality of the work completed in each of these departments is managed by the Quality Control department. Quality control normally budgets for 21,000 inspection hours per year with $609,000 of budgeted fixed costs and $399,000 of budgeted variable costs at this level of activity. Sewings use of Quality Control is budgeted at 12,000 hours a year while Stamping is budgeted at 9,000 hours.

• In July, Sewing used 1,000 inspection hours and Stamping used 800 hours
• In August, Sewing used 1,200 inspection hours and Stamping used 900 hours.

Up until now, the companys cost accountant has simply allocated the Quality Control departments costs to Sewing and Stamping, simply by prorating the total cost to each of the departments based on budgeted usage.

Required

1. How much of Quality Controls cost was allocated to each department (Sewing and Stamping) for July and August based on the cost accountants current method of cost allocation? (2 marks)
2. How much would be allocated if a dual-rate is used with budgeted usage for fixed costs and actual usage for variable costs? (4 marks)

Which method is more appropriate in this case? Explain why you chose this method. (2 marks)