Gipps Business College (GBC) has two-degree programs, undergraduate (UG) and graduate (GRAD), and three service...

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Gipps Business College (GBC) has two-degree programs, undergraduate (UG) and graduate (GRAD), and three service departments, information technology (IT), Event Planning (EP), and Career Services (CS). The CFO of GBC is conducting a profitability analysis of the two programs and wants to include the appropriate costs of the service departments in the cost of the two-degree programs. As part of the analysis, the CFO has collected the following usage patterns of the service departments over the last two years.

Supplying Departments Using Departments

IT EP CS UG GRAD

IT 0 10% 20% 40% 30%

EP 0 0 25% 25% 50%

CS 0 0 0 60% 40%

Direct Costs $119,000 $111,000 $163,000 TBD TBD

c. Allocate the costs using the step method starting with CS, followed by EP, and then IT.

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