Exercise $22-6$ Departmental expense allocations ${}_{P2}$

Gomez Company has two service departments $($Personnel and Office$)$ and two operating departments $($Shoes and Clothing$).$ Following are the direct expenses and square feet occupied by the four departments, and the total sales for the two operating departments.

$\backslash$table$[[$Department$,$Direct Expenses,Square Feet,Sales$],[$Personnel$,$$$18,000,1,120,-],[$Office$,25,000,1,400,-],[$Shoes$,103,000,7,140,$$$273,000$

$1.$ Allocate utilities expense to the four departments.

$2.$ Allocate personnel expense to the shoes and clothing departments.

$3.$ Allocate office expense to the shoes and clothing departments.