%x E14-23 (similar to) Question Help Giotto Hotel & Casino is situated on beautiful Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The complex includes a 300-room hotel, a casino, and a restaurant. As Giotto's new controller, your manager asks you to recommend the basis the hotel should use for allocating fixed overhead costs to the three divisions in 2017. You are presented with the following income statement information for 2016: E (Click the icon to view the data.) You are also given the following data on the three divisions. : (Click the icon to view the data.) You are told that you may choose to allocate indirect costs based on one of the following: direct costs, floor space, or the number of employees. Total fixed overhead costs for 2016 were $14,640,000. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Calculate division margins in percentage terms prior to allocating fixed overhead costs. (Round your answers to two decimal places, X.XX.) Hotel Restaurant Casino Division margin 50.65 % 46.21 % 62.61 % Requirement 2. Allocate indirect costs to the three divisions using each of the three allocation bases suggested. For each allocation base, calculate division operating margins after allocations, in dollars and as a percentage of revenues. Allocate the indirect costs, then calculate the division operating margin in dollars and as a percentage of revenue for each segment. Begin with cost allocation based on direct costs. (Round percentages, including intermediate calculations, to two decimal places, X.XX%. Round dollar amounts to the nearest dollar. Use parentheses or a minus sign for negative amounts.) Hotel Restaurant Casino Giotto Allocated fixed overhead costs Operating margin Operating margin % % % % X i Data Table - Hotel Restaurant Casino Revenues $ 19,654,000 $ 9,700,000 7,936,000 $ 4,268,400 12,370,000 4,624,900 Direct costs $ 9,954,000 $ 3,667,600 $ 7,745,100 Segment margin 1 X Data Table Hotel Restaurant Casino 110,000 22,000 88,000 Floor space (square feet) Number of employees 440 110 550 X Requirements 1. Calculate division margins in percentage terms prior to allocating fixed overhead costs. 2. Allocate indirect costs to the three divisions using each of the three allocation bases suggested. For each allocation base, calculate division operating margins after allocations, in dollars and as a percentage of revenues. 3. Discuss the results. How would you decide how to allocate indirect costs to the divisions? Why? 4. Would you recommend closing any of the three divisions (and possibly reallocating sources to other divisions) as a result of your analysis? If so, which division would you close and why
