Members of the local Sheffield club benefit from two key support services provided by Sheffield's global headquarters: (1) social mediaassistance and (2) member services. The social media department provides 9% of its time to member services, 15% to North/SouthAmerica groups, 22% to Asia groups, 21% to Africa/Australia groups, and 33% to European groups. The member services departmentprovides 13% of its time to the social media department, 24% to North/South America groups, 18% to Asia, 15% to Africa/Australia,and 30% to Europe. If the step method is used to assign costs from the support departments to the operating units, and if social mediais ranked first between the two support departments, what percentage of each support department's cost will be allocated to eachoperating/geographic group? (Round answers for member services to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%)Asia%%Operating DepartmentsAfrica/Australia%%Europe%%Total% Members of the local Sheffield club benefit from two key support services provided by Sheffield's global headquarters: (1) social mediaassistance and (2) member services. The social media department provides 9% of its time to member services, 15% to North/SouthAmerica groups, 22% to Asia groups, 21% to Africa/Australia groups, and 33% to European groups. The member services departmentprovides 13% of its time to the social media department, 24% to North/South America groups, 18% to Asia, 15% to Africa/Australia,and 30% to Europe. If the step method is used to assign costs from the support departments to the operating units, and if social mediais ranked first between the two support departments, what percentage of each support department's cost will be allocated to eachoperating/geographic group? (Round answers for member services to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.)Support DepartmentsSocial MediaMember ServicesSocial Media%Member Services%%North/South America%

Members of the local Sheffield club benefit from two key support services provided by Sheffield's global headquarters: (1) social media assistance and (2) member services. The social media department provides 9% of its time to member services, 15% to North/South America groups, 22% to Asia groups, 21% to Africa/Australia groups, and 33% to European groups. The member services department provides 13% of its time to the social media department. 24% to North/South America groups, 18% to Asia, 15% to Africa/Australia, and 30% to Europe. If the step method is used to assign costs from the support departments to the operating units, and if social media is ranked first between the two support departments, what percentage of each support department's cost will be allocated to each group? (Round answers for member services to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.) operating/geographic Asia % Operating Departments Africa/Australia % % Europe % % Total 8 %

Members of the local Sheffield club benefit from two key support services provided by Sheffield's global headquarters: (1) social media assistance and (2) member services. The social media department provides 9% of its time to member services, 15% to North/South America groups, 22% to Asia groups, 21% to Africa/Australia groups, and 33% to European groups. The member services department provides 13% of its time to the social media department. 24% to North/South America groups, 18% to Asia, 15% to Africa/Australia, and 30% to Europe. If the step method is used to assign costs from the support departments to the operating units, and if social media is ranked first between the two support departments, what percentage of each support department's cost will be allocated to each group? (Round answers for member services to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.) operating/geographic Asia % Operating Departments Africa/Australia % % Europe % % Total 8 %

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