Firefly Co. has four departments: materials, personnel, manufacturing, and packaging. In a recent month, the four departments incurred three shared indirect expenses. The amounts of these indirect expenses and the bases used to allocate them follow.

Departmental data for the company's recent reporting period follow.

(1) Use this information to allocate each of the three indirect expenses across the four departments.
(2) Prepare a summary table that reports the indirect expenses assigned to each of the fourdepartments.

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Indirect Expense Cost Allocation Base Supervision .. 80,000 Number of employees Utlilties Insurance Total. .. +61,000 Square feet occupled assets In use 16.700 Value of .$157,700 Department Materlals Personnel - Manufacturing .. Packaging . Total.-... . Employees Square Feet Asset Values 27,000 5,000 45,000 23,000 $60,000 1,200 42,000 16,800 100,000 120.000 40 104 34 200