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The Sendai Co., Ltd., of Japan has budgeted costs in its various departments as follows for the coming year:

Factory Administration	$	901,110
Custodial Services		105,833
Personnel		51,720
Maintenance		127,797
Machiningoverhead		728,736
Assemblyoverhead		246,304
Total cost	$	2,161,500

The company allocates service department costs to other departments in the order listed below.

Department	Number of Employees	Total Labor- Hours	Square Feet of Space Occupied	Direct Labor- Hours	Machine- Hours
Factory Administration	24		6,400
Custodial Services	9	6,700	6,700
Personnel	14	13,400	9,700
Maintenance	53	47,700	13,900
Machining	72	100,000	60,000	45,000	164,000
Assembly	108	200,000	20,000	209,000	82,000
	280	367,800	116,700	254,000	246,000

Machining and Assembly are operating departments; the other departments are service departments. Factory Administration is allocated on the basis of labor-hours; Custodial Services on the basis of square feet occupied; Personnel on the basis of number of employees; and Maintenance on the basis of machine-hours.

Required:

1.

Allocate service department costs to consuming departments by the step-down method. Then compute predetermined overhead rates in the operating departments using a machine-hours basis in Machining and a direct labor-hours basis in Assembly. (Please enter allocations from a department as negative and allocations to a department as positive. The line should add across to zero. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Predetermined overhead rates" to 2 decimal places and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

2.

Allocate service department costs to consuming departments by the direct method. Again, compute predetermined overhead rates in Machining and Assembly. (Please enter allocations from a department as negative and allocations to a department as positive. The line should add across to zero. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Predetermined overhead rates" to 2 decimal places and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

3.	Assume that the company doesnt bother with allocating service department costs but simply computes a single plantwide overhead rate based on total overhead costs (both service department and operating department costs) divided by total direct labor-hours. Compute the plantwide overhead rate. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

4.	Suppose a job requires machine and labor time as follows:

	Machine-Hours	Direct Labor-Hours
Machining Department	240	29
Assembly Department	16	74
Total hours	256	103

Compute the amount of overhead cost that would be assigned to the job if the overhead rates were developed using the stepdown method, the direct method, and the plantwide method. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final calculations to the nearest whole dollar.)

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