Support Department Cost Allocation-Direct Method Christmas Timber, Inc, produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performe throughout the production process by nonproduction employees. Maintenance and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in e department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 20 and 60 trees, respectively, in them at one time. The company also estimates that the cutting process requires about 9 times as many machine hours as the pruning process. The total costs of each department are as follows: Maintenance Department Janitorial Department Cutting Department Pruning Department $7,800 5,000 54,500 11,000 Using the direct method of support department cost allocation, determine the total cost of each production department after allocating all support costs to the production departments. Cutting Pruning Department Denad
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
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Christmas Timber, Inc., produces Christmas trees. The trees are produced through a cutting and pruning process. Machine maintenance and janitorial labors are performed
throughout the production process by nonproduction employees. Maintenance and janitorial costs are allocated based on machine hours used and the number of trees in each
department, respectively. The company estimates that the cutting and pruning areas typically have about 20 and 60 trees, respectively, in them at one time. The company
also estimates that the cutting process requires about 9 times as many machine hours as the pruning process. The total costs of each department are as follows:
Maintenance Department
Janitorial Department
Cutting Department
Pruning Department
$7,800
5,000
54,500
11,000
Using the direct method of support department cost allocation, determine the total cost of each production department after allocating all support costs to the production
departments.
Production departments total costs
Cutting
Department
Pruning
Department
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