Clothing Company has two service departments purchasing and maintenance, and two production departments ...

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Clothing Company has two service departments purchasing and maintenance, and two production departments fabrication and assembly. The distribution of each service department's efforts to the other departments is shown below:

FROM TO
Purchasing Maintenance Fabrication Assembly
Purchasing 0% 50% 35% 15%
Maintenance 30% 0% 45% 25%

The direct operating costs of the departments (including both variable and fixed costs) were as follows:

Purchasing $ 111,000
Maintenance 33,000
Fabrication 87,000
Assembly 63,000

The total cost accumulated in the fabrication department using the step method is (assume the purchasing department goes first; calculate all ratios and percentages to 4 decimal places, for example 33.3333%, and round all dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar):

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