Yole Incorporated has two service departments (Accounting and Human Resources) and two production departments (Design and Finishing). The company uses the direct method of service-department cost allocation, allocating Accounting cost on the basis of square footage and Human Resources cost on the basis of number of employees. Budgeted allocation-base and operating data for the four departments are as follows.
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Budgeted costs of Accounting and Human Resources respectively amount to $2,240,000 and $1,500,000.
The anticipated overhead costs incurred directly in the Design and Finishing Departments respectively total $3,840,000 and $3,340,000.
The manufacturing overhead application bases used by Yole's production departments are: Design, labour hours; Finishing, machine hours.
Yole's policy holds that a department's overhead application rate is based on a department's own overhead plus an allocated share of service-department cost.
Required:
A. Allocate the company's service-department costs to the producing departments.
B. Compute the overhead application rates for Design and Finishing.
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