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The Grey Manufacturing Company has two service departments: Maintenance and Accounting. The Maintenance Department's costs of $300,000 are allocated on the basis of machine hours. The Accounting Department's costs of $120,000 are allocated on the basis of the number of employees within a specific department. The direct departmental costs for A and B are $300,000 and $500,000, respectively.
| 
 Maintenance  | 
 Accounting  | 
 A  | 
 B  | 
|
| 
 Machine hours  | 
 480  | 
 20  | 
 2,300  | 
 200  | 
| 
 Number of employees  | 
 2  | 
 2  | 
 8  | 
 4  | 
What are the total service department costs allocated to Department A using the step method if the accounting department costs are allocated first?
B. Rodeo Co. manufactures products X and Y from a joint process that also yields a by-product, Z. Revenue from sales of Z is treated as a reduction of joint costs. Additional information is as follows:
Joint costs were allocated using the net realizable value method at the split-off point. The joint costs allocated to product X were
| Allocation of service costs - Accounting | |||||
| Particulars | Calculation | Maintenance | Dept A | Dept B | Total | 
| Number of employees | Given | 2 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 
| Cost to be allocated | $120,000 x 2/14 | $ 17,142.86 | |||
| $120,000 x 8/14 | $ 68,571.43 | ||||
| $120,000 x 4/14 | $ 34,285.71 | $ 1,20,000.00 | |||
| Allocation of service costs - Maintenance | |||||
| Particulars | Calculation | Dept A | Dept B | Total | |
| Machine hours | Given | 2300 | 200 | 2500 | |
| Cost to be allocated | $317,142x 2300/2500 | $ 2,91,771.43 | |||
| $317,142x 200/2500 | $ 25,371.43 | $ 3,17,142.86 | 
| Particulars | Maintenance | Accounting | Department A | Department B | 
| Department cost before allocation | $ 3,00,000.00 | $ 1,20,000.00 | $ 3,00,000.00 | $ 5,00,000.00 | 
| Allocation: | ||||
| Accounting Department | $ 17,142.86 | $ -1,20,000.00 | $ 68,571.43 | $ 34,285.71 | 
| Balance | $ 3,17,142.86 | $ - | $ 3,68,571.43 | $ 5,34,285.71 | 
| Maintenance Department | $ -3,17,142.86 | $ 2,91,771.43 | $ 25,371.43 | |
| Total Costs after allocation | $ - | $ 6,60,342.86 | $ 5,59,657.14 | 
B. The joint cost to be allocated to product X will be in the proportion of Net realizable value at the point of split off. Further total joint costs should be reduced by the revenue from by product Z.