Cooper Ltd. has 2 operating divisions: domestic sales and international sales. They also have 2 support divisions:
Question:
Cooper Ltd. has 2 operating divisions: domestic sales and international sales. They also have 2 support divisions: accounting support and human resources support. For the past year, Cooper’s cost records show the following information:
Support Divisions | Operating Divisions | ||||
Account’g Support | Human Resources Support | Domestic Sales | Inter-national Sales | Total | |
Budgeted costs incurred before any interdivision cost allocations | $500,000 | $600,000 | $8,400,000 | $7,500,000 | $ 17,000,000 |
Support work supplied by Accounting (based on # of employees) | 20% | 40% | 40% | 100% | |
Support work supplied by Human Resources (based on # of staffing actions) | 10% | 60% | 30% | 100% |
Required:
- Allocate the 2 support divisions’ costs to the operating divisions using the Direct Method.
- Allocate the 2 support divisions’ costs to the operating divisions using the Reciprocal Method.
- Allocate the 2 support divisions’ costs to the operating divisions using the Step Down Method – Allocate Accounting Support first.
- What method do you recommend and why?
Cooper Ltd. would like to share the services of a consultant with another company, Hofstadter Inc. The consultant will work a total of 1,000 hours for both companies: 700 for Cooper and 300 hours for Hofstadter Inc. The total cost of the contract will be $368,000. If Cooper were to contract directly with the consultant for 700 hours, the cost would have been $350,000. If Hofstadter were to contract directly with the consultant, the contract would have cost them $ 150,000. How should the companies divide up the cost of the consultant?
Accounting for Decision Making and Control
ISBN: 978-1259564550
9th edition
Authors: Jerold Zimmerman