This is the amount of maintenance costs allocated to the assembly department, not the total service costs allocated to the assembly department. Under the direct method the service department costs are not allocated to other service departments. As such, we need to make certain that when we determine the ratio to allocate the costs to the production departments, we do not include the usage by the other service departments. In order to allocate the costs of the quality control department to assembly, we need to determine what percentage of the quality control time that was used by the production departments was used by assembly. Assembly used QC 7,000 hours and machining used QC 21,000. Thus, assembly will get 25% (7,000 ÷ 28,000), or $87,500 of the QC costs. Assembly used the maintenance department a total of 12,000 hours and machining used maintenance for 18,000 hours. Thus, assembly will get 40% (12,000 ÷ 30,000) of the maintenance costs, or $80,000. In total, therefore, the assembly department received $167,500 in costs allocated from the service departments. This is the amount of quality control costs allocated to the assembly department, not the total service costs allocated to the assembly department. This is not the correct answer. Please see the correct answer for a complete explanation. We have been unable to determine how to calculate this incorrect answer choice. If you have calculated it, please let us know how you did it so we can create a full explanation of why this answer choice is incorrect. Please send us an email at support@hockinternational.com. Include the full Question ID number and the actual incorrect answer choice -- not its letter, because that can change with every study session created. The Question ID number appears in the upper right corner of the ExamSuccess screen. Thank you in advance for helping us to make your HOCK study materials better.
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