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Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and t

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Question

Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and two service departments, Maintenance and Cafeteria Direct costs for each department and the proportion of service costs used by the various departments for the month of August follow: Proportion of Services Used b Machining Department Machining Assembly Malntenance Cafeterlä Direct Costs Malntenance Cafeterla Assembly $100,000 66,400 41,200 33,000 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.6 value Required information 5.00 points Required Compute the allocation of service department costs to producing departments using the direct method. (Do not round intermediate calculations.) Total Costs Machining Assembly

Explanation / Answer

Steps of allocation are as below:

1)Ratios of allocation should be calculated first.

Service department

Aggregate

Production department

Mac

Asse

Main

0.5 + 0.3 = 0.8

0.5/0.8 = 5/8

0.3/0.8 = 3/8

Cafe

0.2 + 0.2 = 0.4

0.2/0.4 = 2/4 = ½

0.2/0.4 = 2/4 = ½

2) Then the service departments’ costs should be multiplied by above factors to get the allocated cost of service department.

Department

Mac

Asse

Main

Café

Allocation of Main

41,200 × (5/8) = 25,750

41,200 × (3/8) = 15,450

(41,200)

Allocation of Cafe

33,000 × (1/2) = 16,500

33,000 × (1/2) = 16,500

(33,000)

Total

42,250

31,950

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Answer: Mac (total cost) = $42,250

               Asse (total cost) = $31,950

Service department

Aggregate

Production department

Mac

Asse

Main

0.5 + 0.3 = 0.8

0.5/0.8 = 5/8

0.3/0.8 = 3/8

Cafe

0.2 + 0.2 = 0.4

0.2/0.4 = 2/4 = ½

0.2/0.4 = 2/4 = ½