Vision Books, an online book retailer, has two operating departments-corporate sales and consumer sales and to support departments-human resources and Information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently Vision Books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2017: (Click the loon to view the dalt. Read the racurements Requirement 1. Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. (Da nat round intermediary calculations. Only round the amount you input in the cell to the nearest dollar. Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs. Enter a "ly for any zero balances. Abbreviations used:HR = Human resources: Info. = Information.) Support Departments Operating Departments HR Data Table Info Systems Corporate Consumer Total Coats inourred Allocation of HR costs Support Departments Operating Departments Allocation of Info System costs Human Information Corporate Consumer Resources Systems Sales Sales Total budgeted costs of operating departments Butigated costs incurred before any Interdepartment cost allocations S 80,000 $ 300,000 $ 503,000 $ 495,000 Support war suppied by human resources department Bucigated number of employees 201 Support work suppied by information systems department A Requirements Budgeted processing time (in minutes) 400 2,500 2.100 Print Done 1. Allocate tha suport departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. 2. Ranic the support departments hased on the percentage of their services provided to other support departments. Use this ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down methad. 3. How could you have ranked the support departments differently? Print Done Vision Books, an online book retailer, has two operating departments-corporate sales and consumer sales and to support departments-human resources and Information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently Vision Books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2017: (Click the loon to view the dalt. Read the racurements Requirement 1. Allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. (Da nat round intermediary calculations. Only round the amount you input in the cell to the nearest dollar. Use parentheses or a minus sign when decreasing departments by allocating costs. Enter a "ly for any zero balances. Abbreviations used:HR = Human resources: Info. = Information.) Support Departments Operating Departments HR Data Table Info Systems Corporate Consumer Total Coats inourred Allocation of HR costs Support Departments Operating Departments Allocation of Info System costs Human Information Corporate Consumer Resources Systems Sales Sales Total budgeted costs of operating departments Butigated costs incurred before any Interdepartment cost allocations S 80,000 $ 300,000 $ 503,000 $ 495,000 Support war suppied by human resources department Bucigated number of employees 201 Support work suppied by information systems department A Requirements Budgeted processing time (in minutes) 400 2,500 2.100 Print Done 1. Allocate tha suport departments' costs to the operating departments using the direct method. 2. Ranic the support departments hased on the percentage of their services provided to other support departments. Use this ranking to allocate the support departments' costs to the operating departments based on the step-down methad. 3. How could you have ranked the support departments differently? Print Done
