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Jack Donaldson Owns and Operates Jack's Abstracting Service Required:
Use the Direct Method to Allocate the Service Department

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Jack Donaldson owns and operates Jack's Abstracting Service. Jack's two revenue generating operations (Abstracting Services and Closing Services) are supported by two service departments: Clerical and Custodial. Costs in the service departments are allocated in the following order using the designated allocation bases.
Clerical: number of transactions processed.
Custodial: square footage of space occupied.
Average and expected activity levels for next month are as follows:
 Numbers of  Trarsactions  Square  Footage  Expected  Costs  Abstract services 501,800 Closing services 252,200 Clerical 1,600$40,000 Custodial 510,000\begin{array} { l r r r } & \begin{array} { r } \text { Numbers of } \\\text { Trarsactions }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Square } \\\text { Footage }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Expected } \\\text { Costs }\end{array} \\\text { Abstract services } & 50 & 1,800 & \\\text { Closing services } & 25 & 2,200 & \\\text { Clerical } & & 1,600 & \$4 0 , 0 0 0 \\\text { Custodial } & 5 & & 10,000\end{array}
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Use the direct method to allocate the service department costs to the revenue generating departments. Provide the total costs for the revenue departments.

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