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The Ferre Publishing Company has three service departments and two operating departments. Selected data from a recent period on the five departments follow:

	Service Departments				Operating Departments
	Administration	Janitorial	Maintenance		Binding	Printing	Total
Costs	$166,600	$124,950	$57,120		$327,250	$511,700	$1,187,620
Number of employees	60	35	140		315	210	760
Square feet of space occupied	15,000	10,000	20,000		40,000	100,000	185,000
Hours of press time					30,000	60,000	90,000

Administration is allocated based on number of employees; Janitorial based on space occupied; and Maintenance based on hours of press time.

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Assuming that the company uses the direct method to allocate service department costs, how much cost would be assigned to each operating department? (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.)

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Service Departments Operating Departments Administration Janitorial Maintenance Binding Printing Total Departmental costs before allocations $166,600 $124,950 $57,120 $327,250 $511,700 $1,187,620 Allocations: Administration costs (166,600)selected answer correct (8,330)selected answer incorrect 65,656selected answer incorrect 69,696selected answer incorrect 68,686selected answer incorrect Janitorial costs 0selected answer correct 16,620selected answer incorrect 65,656selected answer incorrect 56,565selected answer incorrect 68,686selected answer incorrect Maintenance costs 0selected answer correct 0selected answer correct 898,998selected answer incorrect 65,656selected answer incorrect 68,686selected answer incorrect Total costs after allocations $0 $133,240 $1,087,430 $519,167 $717,758 $2,457,595

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