Won Che Co. has four departments: materials, personnel, manufacturing, and packaging. In a recent month, the four departments incurred three shared indirect expenses. The amounts of these indirect expenses and the bases used to allocate them follow.

  

Indirect Expense CostAllocation Base
  Supervision$70,000   Number of employees
  Utilities 56,000   Square feet occupied
  Insurance 16,100   Value of assets in use
  

 
  Total$142,100   
  



 

    

Departmental data for the company’s recent reporting period follow.

    

DepartmentEmployeesSquare FeetAsset Values
  Materials 18  25,000 $33,000 
  Personnel 7  4,100  1,300 
  Manufacturing 65  45,000  38,200 
  Packaging 28  13,100  14,800 
   
  
 

 
  Total 118  87,200 $87,300 
   

  

 



 

   

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Use this information to allocate each of the three indirect expenses across the four departments.

  

 

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