Leslie Company Operates a Cafeteria for the Benefit of Its

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Essay

Leslie Company operates a cafeteria for the benefit of its employees. The company subsidizes the cafeteria heavily by allowing employees to purchase meals at greatly reduced prices. Budgeted and actual costs in the cafeteria for the year just ended are as follows:
*Unrecovered cost after deducting amounts received from employees.Costs of the cafeteria are charged to producing departments on the basis of the number of employees in these departments. Fixed costs are charged on the basis of the percentage of peak-period requirements. Data concerning the company's producing departments follows:
Required:a. Compute the dollar amount of variable and fixed costs that should be charged to each of the producing departments at the end of the year for purposes of evaluating performance.b.Identify the amount, if any, of actual costs that should not be charged to the operating departments.

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Definitions:

Petrochemical Production

The process of converting natural resources, like crude oil or natural gas, into chemical products used in manufacturing and industry.

Conglomerate

A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms into a single entity, typically involving companies in entirely different industries.

Robinson-Patman Act

A United States federal law that aims to prevent anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination.

Price Discrimination

occurs when a seller charges different prices to different buyers for goods of like grade and quality, without justification.