Principles of Cost Accounting
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Author: Edward J. Vanderbeck, Maria R. Mitchell
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Lenser Company has two service departments — product design and engineering support, and two production departments — assembly and finishing. The distribution of each service department's efforts to the other departments is shown below:
SERVICE DEPARTMENT | SERVICES PROVIDED TO | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Design | Support | Assembly | Finishing | |
Product Design | 0% | 10% | 30% | 60% |
Engineering Support | 20% | 0% | 45% | 35% |
The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) were as follows:
Product Design | $ 170,000 |
---|---|
Engineering Support | $ 190,000 |
Assembly | $ 670,000 |
Finishing | $ 1,020,000 |
The total cost accumulated in the assembly department using the direct method is:
Note: Calculate all ratios and percentages to 2 decimal places, for example 33.33%, and round all dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar.
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