A Method for Allocating Service Department Costs That Ignores Other

question 99

Multiple Choice

A method for allocating service department costs that ignores other service departments when any given service department's costs are allocated to the revenue-producing departments is called the

• A) direct method.
• B) indirect method.
• C) step-down method.
• D) step-up method.

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