Lindon Hospital has a Food Services Department that provides meals for all patients in the hospital. Budgeted and actual meals served for June follow: Gunnison Foods has two operating departments, Processing and Packaging. It also has a Housekeeping Department that serves the two operating departments. The costs of the Housekeeping Department are all variable and are allocated to the operating departments on the basis of the number of employees. Data for last year follow: The budgeted costs of the Housekeeping Department were $40,800 and the actual costs were $44,980. The budgeted variable cost of meals for June was $75,000; the actual variable cost of meals for the month was $97,500.
-How much Housekeeping Department cost should have been charged to Packaging at the end of last year for performance evaluation purposes?

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Lindon Hospital has a Food Services Department that provides meals for all patients in the hospital. Budgeted and actual meals served for June follow: Gunnison Foods has two operating departments, Processing and Packaging. It also has a Housekeeping Department that serves the two operating departments. The costs of the Housekeeping Department are all variable and are allocated to the operating departments on the basis of the number of employees. Data for last year follow:  The budgeted costs of the Housekeeping Department were $40,800 and the actual costs were $44,980. The budgeted variable cost of meals for June was $75,000; the actual variable cost of meals for the month was $97,500.
-How much Housekeeping Department cost should have been charged to Packaging at the end of last year for performance evaluation purposes?

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Budgeted variable cost per employee = $40,800 F1F1F1S1F1F1F10 (1,700 employees + 3,400 employees)= $8 per employee
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Lindon Hospital Has a Food Services Department That Provides Meals