University Printers has two service departments (Maintenance and Personnel) and two operating departments (Printing and Developing). Management has decided to allocate maintenance costs on the basis of machine-hours in each department and personnel costs on the basis of labor-hours worked by the employees in each. The following data appear in the company records for the current period: Machine-hours Labor-hours Department direct costs. Maintenance Service department costs Maintenance allocation Personnel allocation Total costs allocated 700 $4,800 Personnel 1,700 $14,800 Printing 1,700 700 $16,000 Developing 3,400 2,800 $13,100 Required: Use the direct method to allocate these service department costs to the operating departments. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations.) Maintenance Personnel Printing Developing

In cost accounting, overhead refers to those expenses which occur during the operating of a business. Overhead includes the fixed, variable, or semi-variable which is not directly involved with a company product or service. It is very important to analyz…