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Johnson Company's Power Plant Provides Electricity to Two Producing Departments  Budgeted fixed costs$500,000 Budgeted variable costs per kilowatt hour$1\begin{array} { l } \text { Budgeted fixed costs}&\$500,000 \\\text { Budgeted variable costs per kilowatt hour}&\$1 \\\end{array}

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Johnson Company's power plant provides electricity to two producing departments.The annual budget for the power plant shows the following:
 Budgeted fixed costs$500,000 Budgeted variable costs per kilowatt hour$1\begin{array} { l } \text { Budgeted fixed costs}&\$500,000 \\\text { Budgeted variable costs per kilowatt hour}&\$1 \\\end{array}

Actual annual costs incurred by the power plant were:
Actual fixed costs $215,000 Actual variable costs$350,000\begin{array} { l } \text {Actual fixed costs }&\$215,000\\ \text { Actual variable costs}&\$350,000 \\\end{array}

Additional annual data follows:
 Poducing Department 1 Poducing Department 2 Capacity available 250,000 kilowatt hours 150,000 kilowatt hours  Capacity used 270,000 kilowatt hours 165,000 kilowatt hours \begin{array} { l }&\text { Poducing Department } 1&\text { Poducing Department } 2\\\text { Capacity available }&250,000 \text { kilowatt hours }&150,000 \text { kilowatt hours }\\\text { Capacity used }&270,000 \text { kilowatt hours }&165,000 \text { kilowatt hours }\end{array}

Required:
A) Compute the amount of fixed costs allocated to each producing department.
B) Compute the amount of variable costs allocated to each producing department.

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A)$250,000/$400,000 × $500,000 = $312,50...

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