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   Direct Method

   Eilers Company has two producing departments and two support departments. The following budgeted data pertain to these four departments:

   	Support Departments		Producing Departments
   	General Factory	Receiving	Assembly	Finishing
   Direct overhead	$420,000	$160,000	$41,000	$71,000
   Square footage		2,000	4,000	4,000
   Number of receiving orders	350		1,950	1,250
   Direct labor hours			28,000	45,000

   The company has decided to simplify its method of allocating support service costs by switching to the direct method.

   Required:

   1. Allocate the costs of the support departments to the producing departments using the direct method. Round allocation ratios to four significant digits. Round allocated costs to the nearest dollar. Use the rounded values for subsequent calculations.

   Allocation ratios:

   	Assembly	Finishing
   Square footage	fill in the blank 1	fill in the blank 2
   Number of receiving orders	fill in the blank 3	fill in the blank 4
   Allocations:
   	Assembly	Finishing
   General Factory	$fill in the blank 5	$fill in the blank 6
   Receiving	fill in the blank 7	fill in the blank 8
   Direct costs	fill in the blank 9	fill in the blank 10
   Total	$fill in the blank 11	$fill in the blank 12

   2. Using direct labor hours, compute departmental overhead rates. (Round to the nearest cent.)

   	Overhead Rate
   Assembly	fill in the blank 13 per direct labor hour
   Finishing	fill in the blank 14 per direct labor hour