Direct and step-down allocation. E-books, an online book retailer, has two operating departments- corporate sales and consumer sales-and two support departments-human resources and information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently. E-books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2017: Page Layout Data Home Insert Formulas Review View в SUPPORT ID OPERATING DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENTS Corporate Consumer Sales Sales Human Information Resources Systems 3 Budgeted costs incurred before any interdepartment cost allocations Support work supplied by human 5 resources department Budgeted number of employees Support work supplied by information 7 systems department Budgeted processing time (in minutes) $72,700 $234,400 $998,270 $489,860 4 21 42 28 8. 320 1,920 1,600

Discuss the components of the Contribution Margin Income Statement, how does management use this in the decision making process?

Part 1: Allocate the costs of the 3 service departments using the direct method. Part 2: Allocate the costs of the 3 service departments using the step method, with the order determined by the greater percentage usage. Part 3: Allocate the costs of the 3 service departments using the reciprical method.  Part 4:What is one strength and one drawback of each of the methods?

Cost accounting provides management with a variety of cost classifications that can be used for different decision-making processes. Write your opinion on how management could use each of the following cost classification for decision making: Direct and indirect costs. Fixed, variable, and mixed costs. Period and product costs. Manufacturing and selling costs. Standards and actual costs.

Which one of the following options can be used when allocating cafeteria costs? Select one: a. Number of square feet b. Appraised value of square footage c. Number of direct labor hours d. Number of employees

company You are a management accountant of EON and Brothers Ltd., a manufacturing that produces two products simultaneously in one of their production plants. You are asked to produce a management report on costing techniques. This company follows a traditional approach to costing and absorbs production overhead using machine hours. The company's policy is to add a 50% markup on the unit cost to obtain the selling price. The relevant information is given below: EON and Brothers Ltd. produces two similar products called Alfa and Beta. Total Overheads = £155,000 Machine Hours = 58980 hrs Product Alfa Beta Production Units 2,580 5,100 Material Cost per unit £31 £51 Labour Cost per unit £21 £17 Machine Hours per unit 11 16 After discussing with all the important people of the production plant you have allocated the overhead costs as mentioned below: % Overheads Set up Costs 30 Inspections 40 Materials Handling 30 Cost Pools are as mentioned below: Alfa Beta Total Setups 400 65 465…