Finkler Legal Services, LLC, Uses the Step-Down Method to Allocate

question 36

Essay

Finkler Legal Services, LLC, uses the step-down method to allocate service department costs to operating departments. The firm has two service departments, Personnel and Information Technology (IT), and two operating departments, Family Law and Corporate Law. Data concerning those departments follow: Personnel costs are allocated first on the basis of employees and IT costs are allocated second on the basis of PCs.
-Maclennan Corporation uses the direct method to allocate service department costs to operating departments. The company has two service departments, Administrative and Facilities, and two operating departments, Assembly and Finishing.
Administrative Department costs are allocated on the basis of employee hours and Facilities Department costs are allocated on the basis of space occupied.
Required:
Allocate the service department costs to the operating departments using the direct method.

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