Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company's operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $58 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $680,800 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $106,800 for variable costs and $686,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Budgeted number of employees Cutting 600 Milling 287 Assembly 903 Actual number of employees for the most recent year 500 Long-run average number of employees. 630 387 420 803 1,050 Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services Department charges for the year to each of the operating departments-Cutting, Milling, and Assembly. 2. How much, if any, of the actual Medical Services Department costs for the year should be treated as a spending variance and not charged to the operating departments?

Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company's operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $58 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $680,800 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $106,800 for variable costs and $686,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Budgeted number of employees Cutting 600 Milling 287 Assembly 903 Actual number of employees for the most recent year 500 Long-run average number of employees. 630 387 420 803 1,050 Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services Department charges for the year to each of the operating departments-Cutting, Milling, and Assembly. 2. How much, if any, of the actual Medical Services Department costs for the year should be treated as a spending variance and not charged to the operating departments?

Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)

4th Edition

ISBN:9781305970663

Author:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen

Publisher:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen

Chapter7: Allocating Costs Of Support Departments And Joint Products

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 30E: A company uses charging rates to allocate service department costs to the using departments. The...

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

A company uses charging rates to allocate service department costs to the using departments. The accountant compiled the following information on one of the service departments: If Department K plans to use 1,350 hours of the service departments service in the coming year, how much of the service departments cost is allocated to Department K? a. 3,375 b. 27,300 c. 26,325 d. 23,950
Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company's operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $55 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $659,700 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $105,100 for variable costs and $665,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Rudgeted number of employees Actual number of employees for the most recent year Long-run average number of employees Cutting 610 510 990 Milling 287 387 660 Assembly 909 809 1,650 Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services Department charges for the…
Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company’s operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $58 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $683,200 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $105,800 for variable costs and $689,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Cutting Milling Assembly Budgeted number of employees 604 287 918 Actual number of employees for the most recent year 504 387 818 Long-run average number of employees 720 480 1,200 Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services…
Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company's operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $57 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $639,300 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $105,800 for variable costs and $645,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Budgeted number of employees Cutting 604 Milling 293 Assembly 918 Actual number of employees for the most recent year 504 393 Long-run average number of employees 1,050 700 818 1,750 Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services Department charges for the…
Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department that charges its variable costs to operating departments based on the actual number of employees in each department. It charges fixed costs to operating departments based on the long-run average number of employees. The Medical Services Department's variable costs are budgeted at $55 per employee and its fixed costs are budgeted at $609,700 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $105,600 for variable costs and $615,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Cutting Milling Budgeted number of employees 612 285 Assembly 915 Actual number of employees for the most recent year 512 385 815 Long-run average number of employees 630 420 1,050 Required: 1. Calculate the Medical Services Department charges to each of the operating departments-Cutting, Milling, and Assembly. 2. How much, if any, of the Medical Services Department's actual costs…
TBBSBM764 Corporation's delivery department provides service for two operating departments of the company. Variable costs of the TBBSBM764's delivery department are allocated based on the number of deliveries made to each department in a given period. TBBSBM764's delivery department's fixed costs are budgeted to be 25% of total costs and are allocated based on the peak period needs of each operating department. Data for last year are given below: Delivery Department: Actual Fixed Costs Actual Variable Costs (ID#346818) Total Budgeted Costs $19,410 $40,590 $48,000 Peak period needs Actual deliveries Budgeted deliveries Operating Dept 1 10,000 deliveries 8,958 8,000 Operating Dept 2 5,000 deliveries 3,452 4,000 Q.) What amount of the TBBSBM764's delivery department's actual costs should not be allocated to the operating departments? A.) $ Prev 1 of 25 Next > MacBook Air
Service Department Charges Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department for its employees. Charges to the company’s operating departments for the variable costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the actual number of employees in each department. Charges for the fixed costs of the Medical Services Department are based on the long-run average number of employees in each operating department. Variable Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $80 per employee. Fixed Medical Services Department costs are budgeted at $400,000 per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $41,000 for variable costs and $408,000 for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow: Required: 1. Determine the Medical Services Department charges for the year to each of the operating departments—Cutting, Milling, and Assembly. 2. How much, if any, of the actual Medical Services Department costs for the year…
Nanda Company has two service departments, Maintenance and Personnel. Maintenance Department costs of P160,000 are allocated on the basis of budgeted maintenance-hours. Personnel Department costs of P40,000 are allocated based on the number of employees. The costs of operating departments A and B are P80,000 and P120,000, respectively. Data on budgeted maintenance-hours and number of employees are as follows: Support Departments Production Departments Maintenance A B Department Budgeted costs P160,000 P40,000 P80,000 P120,000 Budgeted ΝΑ 400 480 320 maintenance-hours Number of employees 20 ΝΑ 80 240 Using the step-down method, what amount of Maintenance Department cost will be allocated to Department A if the service department with the highest percentage of interdepartmental support service is allocated first? (Round up) Personnel Department
River, Inc., has two producing departments. Each producing department is held responsible for a share of the costs of a support department.Actual and budgeted data are as follows: Current Year Support department hours used: Department X 10,000 Department Y 14,000 Total hours 24,000 Support department costs: Actual support department costs $72,000 Budgeted fixed service center costs $30,000 Budgeted variable rate per hour $4.00 Normal support department usage is 15,000 hours each for Department X and Department Y.Required: A. Assuming the purpose is product costing, allocate the costs of the support department using the direct method. B. Assuming the purpose is to evaluate performance, allocate the costs of the support department.
Mangiamele Corporation's Maintenance Department provides services to the company's two operating divisions-the Paints Division and the Stains Division. The variable costs of the Maintenance Department are budgeted based on the number of cases produced by the operating departments. The fixed costs of the Maintenance Department are budgeted based on the number of cases produced by the operating departments during the peak period. Data appear below: Maintenance Department: Budgeted variable cost Budgeted total fixed cost $ 4 per case $ 693,000 Paints Division: 30% Percentage of peak period capacity required Actual cases 18,000 Stains Division: 70% Percentage of peak period capacity required Actual cases 59,000 For performance evaluation purposes, how much Maintenance Department cost should be charged to the Paints Division at the end of the year? A. $234,000 B. $500,500 C. $279,900 D. $300,300
i Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below] Adger Corporation is a service company that measures its output based on the number of customers served. The company provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes and the actual results for May as shown below: Revenue Employee salaries and wages Travel expenses Other expenses Fixed Element per Month Variable Element per Customer Served Actual Total for May $ 6,600 $ 213,500 $ 62,000 $ 2,300 $ 141,100 $ 540 $ 15,700 $ 41,000 $ 38,900 When preparing its planning budget the company estimated that it would serve 30 customers per month; however, during May the company actually served 35 customers. 5. What activity variances would Adger report with respect to each of its expenses for May? (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive…
Casas Corporation has two service departments, Personnel and Cafeteria, and two operating departments, Customer Care and Customer Solutions. The number of employees in each department are: Personnel 8 Cafeteria Customer Care 32 Customer Solutions 11 Total 58 The fixed costs of the Personnel Department are allocated on the basis of the number of employees. If these costs are budgeted at $42,150, the amount of Personnel Department cost allocated to the Cafeteria under the step-down method would be closest to: Multiple Choice $19,670 $5,901 $0 $5,087