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Anders Company has two producing departments - Cutting and Sewing - and two support departments - Maintenance and General Factory (GF). Anders provided the following information on the four departments:


Maintenance

General Factory

Cutting

Sewing

Direct overhead costs

$10,000

$270,000

$56,400

$75,000

Machine hours

459

2,000

9,000

9,000

Square footage

2,500

3,418

5,000

8,500


The company does not break overhead into fixed and variable components. The bases for allocation are maintenance - machine hours; general factory - square feet.

1. Calculate the allocation ratios for the four departments using the sequential (step) method. The support departments are ranked in order of highest cost to lowest cost. Take allocation ratios out to four significant digits.


Maintenance

General Factory

Cutting

Sewing

Machine hours





Square footage






2. Allocate the overhead costs to the producing departments using the sequential (step) method. Round allocated costs to the nearest dollar.


Maintenance

General Factory

Cutting

Sewing

Direct overhead costs

$10,000

$270,000

$56,400

$75,000

Machine hours





Square footage





Total






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