Leslie Company Operates a Cafeteria for the Benefit of Its

question 10

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:

Third Party

An individual or group besides the two primarily involved in a transaction or legal case.

Undisclosed Principal

A party in a contract whose identity is not revealed to the third party by the agent, allowing the principal to conduct transactions anonymously.

Limited Partners

Investors in a partnership who are not involved in the day-to-day management of the business and whose liability is limited to the amount they have invested.

Insanity

When a person cannot understand the nature or consequences of his acts.