Exercise $11-15($Static$)$ Service Department Charges $[$LO$11-4]$

Korvanis Corporation operates a Medical Services Department that charges its variable costs to operating departments based on the actual number of employees in each department. It charges fixed costs to operating departments based on the long$-$run average number of employees.

The Medical Services Department$$s variable costs are budgeted at $$80$ per employee and its fixed costs are budgeted at $$400,000$ per year. Actual Medical Services Department costs for the most recent year were $$41,000$ for variable costs and $$408,000$ for fixed costs. Data concerning employees in the three operating departments follow:

$$CuttingMillingAssemblyBudgeted number of employees$170100280$Actual number of employees for the most recent year$15080270$Long$-$run average number of employees$180120300$

Required:

Calculate the Medical Services Department charges to each of the operating departments$$Cutting$,$ Milling, and Assembly.

How much, if any, of the Medical Services Department$$s actual costs should be treated as a spending variance and not charged to operating departments?