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Accounting for Decision Making and Control 8th Edition by Jerold Zimmerman
Edition 8ISBN: 978-0078025747Accounting for Decision Making and Control 8th Edition by Jerold Zimmerman
Edition 8ISBN: 978-0078025747 Exercise 9
Donovan Steel
Donovan Steel has two profit centers: Ingots and Stainless Steel. These profit centers rely on services supplied by two service departments: electricity and water. The profit centers' consumption of the service departments' outputs (in millions) is given in the following table:
The total operating costs of the two service departments are
Required:
a. Service department costs are allocated to profit centers using the step-down method. Water is the first service department allocated. Compute the cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour using the step-down allocation method.
b. Critically evaluate this allocation method.
Donovan Steel has two profit centers: Ingots and Stainless Steel. These profit centers rely on services supplied by two service departments: electricity and water. The profit centers' consumption of the service departments' outputs (in millions) is given in the following table:
The total operating costs of the two service departments are Required: a. Service department costs are allocated to profit centers using the step-down method. Water is the first service department allocated. Compute the cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour using the step-down allocation method.
b. Critically evaluate this allocation method.
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