Expert Garage pays $128,000 rent each year for its two-story building. The space in this building is

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Expert Garage pays $128,000 rent each year for its two-story building. The space in this building is occupied by five departments as specified here.

Paint department . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200 square feet of first-floor space

Engine department . . . . . . . . . . 3,600 square feet of first-floor space

Window department . . . . . . . . . 1,920 square feet of second-floor space

Electrical department . . . . . . . . 1,056 square feet of second-floor space

Accessory department . . . . . . . 1,824 square feet of second-floor space

The company allocates 65% of total rent expense to the first floor and 35% to the second floor, and then allocates rent expense for each floor to the departments occupying that floor on the basis of space occupied. Determine the rent expense to be allocated to each department. (Round percents to the nearest one-tenth and dollar amounts to the nearest whole dollar.)


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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0073379586

2010 Edition

Authors: John J. Wild, Ken W. Shaw

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