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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	$	1,014,000
Custodial Services		119,348
Personnel		35,515
Maintenance		133,707
Machiningoverhead		1,008,652
Assemblyoverhead		656,578
Total cost	$	2,967,800

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	27		6,100
Custodial Services	10	6,900	8,900
Personnel	18	13,200	11,500
Maintenance	55	52,400	19,900
Machining	68	100,000	60,000	47,000	176,000
Assembly	102	250,000	20,000	258,000	88,000
	280	422,500	126,400	305,000	264,000

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: 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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