1.
Support Department Cost Allocation—Direct Method
Christmas Timber, Inc., produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performed throughout the production process by nonproduction employees. Maintenance and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 24 and 56 trees, respectively, in them at 1 time. The company also estimates that the cutting process requires about 9 times as many machine hours as the pruning process. The total costs of each department are as follows:
Maintenance Department | $8,000 |
Janitorial Department | 3,000 |
Cutting Department | 56,000 |
Pruning Department | 8,000 |
Using the direct method of support department cost allocation, determine the total cost of each production department after allocating all support costs to the production departments.
Cutting Department |
Pruning Department |
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Production departmentsʼ total costs | $ | $ |
2.
Support department cost allocation—reciprocal services method
Davis Snowflake & Co. produces Christmas stockings in its Cutting and Sewing departments. The Maintenance and Security departments support the production of the stockings. Costs from the Maintenance Department are allocated based on machine hours, and costs from the Security Department are allocated based on asset value. Information about each department is provided in the following table:
Maintenance Department |
Security Department |
Cutting Department |
Sewing Department |
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Machine hours | 800 | 2,000 | 6,400 | 11,600 |
Asset value | $2,000 | $1,460 | $2,000 | $6,000 |
Department cost | $38,160 | $16,960 | $65,000 | $82,000 |
Determine the total cost of each production department after allocating all support department costs to the production departments using the reciprocal services method.
Cutting Department |
Sewing Department |
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Production departmentsʼ total costs | $ |
$ |
3.
Support department cost allocation—direct method
Becker Tabletops has two support departments (Janitorial and Cafeteria) and two production departments (Cutting and Assembly). Relevant details for these departments are as follows:
Support Department | Cost Driver | |
Janitorial Department | Square footage to be serviced | |
Cafeteria Department | Number of employees |
Janitorial Department |
Cafeteria Department |
Cutting Department |
Assembly Department |
|
Department costs | $300,000 | $200,000 | $1,490,000 | $700,000 |
Square feet | 42 | 4,600 | 800 | 3,200 |
Number of employees | 8 | 3 | 32 | 8 |
Allocate the support department costs to the production departments using the direct method.
Cutting Department |
Assembly Department |
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Janitorial Department cost allocation | $ | $ | |
Cafeteria Department cost allocation | $ | $ |
Answer :
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Maintenance | Janitorial | Cutting | Pruning | |
Department | Department | Department | Department | |
Cost | 8000 | 3000 | 56000 | 8000 |
Allocation of Maint.Dept cost | -8000 | 7200 | 800 | |
Allocation of cutting Dept cost | -3000 | 900 | 2100 | |
Production department total cost | 64100 | 10900 |
Working | Cutting | Pruning |
Department | Department | |
Allocation of Main.Dept cost | 8000*9/(9+1) | 8000*1/(9+1) |
Allocation of cutting Dept cost | 3000*24/(24+56) | 3000*56/(24+56) |
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1. Support Department Cost Allocation—Direct Method Christmas Timber, Inc., produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performed throughout the production process by non-production employees. Maintenance and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 6 and 54 trees, respectively, in them at 1 time. The company...
Support Department Cost Allocation—Direct Method Christmas Timber, Inc., produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performed throughout the production process by nonproduction employees. Maintenance and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 20 and 60 trees, respectively, in them at one time. The company also...
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Support department cost allocation—reciprocal services method Davis Snowflake & Co. produces Christmas stockings in its Cutting and Sewing departments. The Maintenance and Security departments support the production of the stockings. Costs from the Maintenance Department are allocated based on machine hours, and costs from the Security Department are allocated based on asset value. Information about each department is provided in the following table: Maintenance Department Security Department Cutting Department Sewing Department Machine hours 800 2,000 6,400 11,600 Asset...
Support department cost allocation—reciprocal services method Davis Snowflake & Co. produces Christmas stockings in its Cutting and Sewing departments. The Maintenance and Security departments support the production of the stockings. Costs from the Maintenance Department are allocated based on machine hours, and costs from the Security Department are allocated based on asset value. Information about each department is provided in the following table: Maintenance Department Security Department Cutting Department Sewing Department Machine hours 800 2,000 7,200 10,800 Asset...
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