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Allocation: Fixed and Variable Costs, Budgeted Fixed and Variable Costs Biotechtron, Inc., has two research laboratories in the Southwest, one in Yuma, Arizona, and the other in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The owner of Biotechtron centralized the legal services function in the Yuma office and had both laboratories send any legal questions or issues to the Yuma office. The legal services support center has budgeted fixed costs of $166,000 per year and a budgeted variable rate of $63 per hour of professional time. The normal usage of the legal services center is 2,820 hours per year for the Yuma office and 1,880 hours per year for the Bernalillo office. This corresponds to the expected usage for the coming year. Required: 1. Determine the amount of legal services support center costs that should be assigned to each office. In your computations, carry ratio values out to two decimal places. Round your final answers to the nearest dollar if rounding is required. Yuma $ 277,260 Bernalillo $ 184,840 2. Since the offices produce services, not tangible products, what purpose is served by allocating the budgeted costs? It serves the same purposes as costing out tangible products (e.g., pricing, profitability analysis, and performance eva
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3. Now, assume that during the year, the legal services center incurred actual fixed costs of $169,800 and actual variable costs of $269,910. It delivered 4,270 hours of professional time—2,470 hours to Yuma and 1,800 hours to Bernalillo.

Determine the amount of the legal services center's costs that should be allocated to each office.

Answer 1

Computation of Actual Fixed Overhead Rate= Total Fixed Cost/ Total No. of Activity
($169800/4270= $39.77
Computation of Actual Variable Overhead Rate= Total Variable Cost/ Total No. of Activity
($269910/4270= $63.21
Computation of Amount of Legal Service Support Centre Cost to Each office
	No. of Hour (A)	Fixed cost (B=AX$39.77))	Variable cost (C=AX $63.21) )	Allocated Cost (B+C)
Yuma	2470	$98,231.90	$156,128.70	$254,361
Bernalillo	1800	$71,586.00	$113,778.00	$185,364