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Caro Manufacturing has two production departments, Machining and Assembly, and two service departments, Maintenance and Cafeteria. Direct costs for each department and the proportion of service costs used by the various departments for the month of August follow:

				Proportion of Services Used by
Department	Direct Costs			Maintenance		Cafeteria		Machining		Assembly
Machining	$	115,000
Assembly		84,000
Maintenance		49,000				0.3		0.5		0.2
Cafeteria		33,000		0.7				0.1		0.2

Required:

Use the step method to allocate the service costs, using the following:

a. The order of allocation starts with Maintenance. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

		TO
From	Maintenance	Cafeteria	Machining	Assembly
Service dept costs
Maintenance
Cafeteria
Total Costs

b. The allocations are made in the reverse order (starting with Cafeteria). (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

		To
From	Maintenance	Cafeteria	Machining	Assembly
Service Department Costs
Cafeteria
Maintenance
Total Costs

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