HomeLife Life Insurance Company has two service departments (actuarial and premium rating) and two production departments (advertising and sales). The distribution of each service department’s efforts (in percentages) to the other departments is shown in the following table:    To From Actuarial Premium Rating Advertising Sales Actuarial — 80% 10% 10% Premium 25% — 15 60

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HomeLife Life Insurance Company has two service departments (actuarial and premium rating) and two production departments (advertising and sales). The distribution of each service department’s efforts (in percentages) to the other departments is shown in the following table: 

  To
From Actuarial Premium Rating Advertising Sales
Actuarial 80% 10% 10%
Premium 25% 15 60

 

The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) are:

Actuarial $ 99,000
Premium rating 34,000
Advertising 79,000
Sales 59,000

1. Determine the total costs of the advertising and sales departments after using the reciprocal method of allocation.

 

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