Lackawanna Community College has three divisions: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Business Administration. The college's comptroller trying to decide how to allocate the costs of the Admissions Department, the Registrar's Department, and the Computer Services Department. The comptroller has compiled the following data for the year just ended. Annual Cost Department Admissions Registrar Computer Services $130, 000 221,000 468,000 Budgeted Enrollment Budgeted Credit Hours Planned Courses Requiring Computer Work Division Liberal Arts 2,300 1,450 1,350 43,000 37,750 25 Sciences 37 Business Administration 31,750 37 Roguirod:
Lackawanna Community College has three divisions: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Business Administration. The college's comptroller trying to decide how to allocate the costs of the Admissions Department, the Registrar's Department, and the Computer Services Department. The comptroller has compiled the following data for the year just ended. Annual Cost Department Admissions Registrar Computer Services $130, 000 221,000 468,000 Budgeted Enrollment Budgeted Credit Hours Planned Courses Requiring Computer Work Division Liberal Arts 2,300 1,450 1,350 43,000 37,750 25 Sciences 37 Business Administration 31,750 37 Roguirod:
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Transcribed Image Text:Lackawanna Community College has three divisions: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Business Administration. The college's comptroller is
trying to decide how to allocate the costs of the Admissions Department, the Registrar's Department, and the Computer Services
Department. The comptroller has compiled the following data for the year just ended.
Annual Cost
Department
Admissions
Registrar
Computer Services
$130, 000
221,000
468,000
Planned Courses
Budgeted
Budgeted
Credit Hours
Requiring
Computer Work
Division
Enrollment
Liberal Arts
Sciences
2,300
43,000
37,750
31,750
25
1,450
37
Business Administration
1,350
37
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1. Distribute the departmental costs to the college's three divisions based on the allocation base given.
2. Choose the better allocation base for distributing the cost to the following departments:
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