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Tasman Products, Limited, of Australia has a Maintenance Department that services the equipment in the companys Forming Department and Assembly Department. The cost of this servicing is charged to the operating departments on the basis of machine-hours. Cost and other data relating to the Maintenance Department and to the other two departments for the most recent year are presented below.

Data for the Maintenance Department follow:

	Budget	Actual
Variable costs for lubricants	$ 321,300*	$ 411,690
Fixed costs for salaries and other	$ 181,000	$ 194,100

*Budgeted at $21 per machine-hour.

Data for the Forming and Assembly Departments follow:

	Percentage of Peak-Period Capacity Required	Machine-Hours
		Budget	Actual
Forming Department	62%	10,400	12,400
Assembly Department	38%	4,900	3,900
Total	100%	15,300	16,300

The level of fixed costs in the Maintenance Department is determined by peak-period requirements.

Required:

1. How much Maintenance Department cost should be charged to the Forming Department and to the Assembly Department?

2. How much, if any, of the actual Maintenance Department costs for the year should be treated as a spending variance and not charged to the Forming and Assembly departments?