In: Accounting
University Printers has two service departments (Maintenance and Personnel) and two operating departments (Printing and Developing). Management has decided to allocate maintenance costs on the basis of machine-hours in each department and personnel costs on the basis of labor-hours worked by the employees in each.
The following data appear in the company records for the current period:
Maintenance | Personnel | Printing | Developing | |||||||||
Machine-hours | − | 640 | 520 | 2,840 | ||||||||
Labor-hours | 399 | − | 357 | 1,344 | ||||||||
Department direct costs | $ | 11,000 | $ | 22,000 | $ | 30,000 | $ | 18,000 | ||||
Required:
Allocate the service department costs using the reciprocal method. (Matrix algebra is not required because there are only two service departments.) (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.)
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