Duweynie Pottery, Inc., is divided into two operating divisions: Pottery and Retail. The company allocates Power and General Factory department costs to each operating division. Power costs are allocated on the basis of the number of machine hours and general factory costs on the basis of square footage. No effort is made to separate fixed and variable costs; however, only budgeted costs are allocated. Allocations for the coming year are based on the following data: Use the rounded values for subsequent calculations.   Support Departments   Operating Divisions   Power   General Factory   Pottery   Retail Overhead costs $150,000   $171,600   $97,000   $55,000 Machine hours 2,000   2,500   7,000   3,000 Square footage 2,500   1,700   4,000   6,000 Round all allocation ratios to four significant digits. Round all allocated amounts to the nearest dollar. Required: 1. Allocate the support service costs using the direct method.

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Duweynie Pottery, Inc., is divided into two operating divisions: Pottery and Retail. The company allocates Power and General Factory department costs to each operating division. Power costs are allocated on the basis of the number of machine hours and general factory costs on the basis of square footage. No effort is made to separate fixed and variable costs; however, only budgeted costs are allocated. Allocations for the coming year are based on the following data: Use the rounded values for subsequent calculations.

  Support Departments   Operating Divisions
  Power   General Factory   Pottery   Retail
Overhead costs $150,000   $171,600   $97,000   $55,000
Machine hours 2,000   2,500   7,000   3,000
Square footage 2,500   1,700   4,000   6,000

Round all allocation ratios to four significant digits. Round all allocated amounts to the nearest dollar.

Required:

1. Allocate the support service costs using the direct method.

Note: Input to two decimal places.

 

Allocation Ratios Pottery Retail
Proportion of machine hours fill in the blank 1 fill in the blank 2
Proportion of square footage fill in the blank 3 fill in the blank 4

 

Cost Allocations Pottery Retail
Power $fill in the blank  $fill in the blank 
General Factory fill in the blank  fill in the blank 
Direct costs fill in the blank  fill in the blank 
     
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