Tenet Engineering, Inc. operates two user divisions as separate cost objects. To determine the costs of each division, the company allocates common costs to the divisions. During the past month, the following common costs were incurred: Computer services (85% fixed) $ 279,000 Building occupancy 680,000 Personnel costs 118,000 Total common costs $ 1,077,000 The following information is available concerning various activity measures and service usages by each of the divisions: Division A Division B Area occupied (square feet) 21,000 42,000 Payroll $ 451,000 $ 251,000 Computer time (hours) 340 360 Computer storage (megabytes) 7,200 -0- Equipment value $ 217,000 $ 267,000 Operating profit (pre-allocations) $ 552,500 $ 492,500 If common computer service costs are allocated using computer time as the allocation basis, what is the computer cost allocated to Division B?

Respuesta :

Answer:

126,334 division B computer services fixed part

Explanation:

first we calculate the fixed cost to allocate:

85% of the computing services are fixed

85% of 279,000 = 245650

then we calculate the pool

340 + 360 = 700

we divide the cost for the activity pool total and multiply by the division B use

245650 /700 x 360 = 126,334

this will be the cost for computer services fixed part allocate for division B