Pat's Print Shops has a warehouse that supplies paper and other supplies to its store locations. It

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Pat's Print Shops has a warehouse that supplies paper and other supplies to its store locations. It has two service departments, Information Services (S1) and Operation Support (S2), and two operating departments, Printing (P1) and Customer Service (P2). As an internal auditor, you are checking the company's procedures for cost allocation. You find the following cost allocation results for September:


Pat's Print Shops has a warehouse that supplies paper and


Total costs for the two service departments are $80,000.
Operation Support's services are provided as follows:
• 50 percent to Printing.
• 30 percent to Customer Service.
The direct method of allocating costs is used.

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a. What are the total service department costs (S1 + S2) allocated to P2?
b. Complete the following:

Pat's Print Shops has a warehouse that supplies paper and


c. What proportion of S1's costs were allocated to P1 andP2?

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Fundamentals of Cost Accounting

ISBN: 978-0077398194

3rd Edition

Authors: William Lanen, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher

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