Ernst & Gray, CPAs Has Three Divisions: Audit, Tax, and Business

question 25

Multiple Choice

Ernst & Gray, CPAs has three divisions: audit, tax, and business consulting.When the specifications for the new computer system were established, the audit division needed 50% of the capacity, the tax division required 30%, and business consulting required 20%.The fixed computer department costs are allocated based on computer needs.The variable costs of the computer department are allocated based on the minutes of computer time that each department uses.The computer division budget for fixed costs is $450,000, and the budget for variable costs is $145,600.The company anticipates using 520,000 minutes of computer time.If the tax division uses 104,000 minutes of computer time this year, what is the total amount of computer department costs that will be allocated to the tax division (round your intermediate calculation to two decimal places) ?

• A)$173,680
• B)$135,000
• C)$164,120
• D)$119,120

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