Reference no: EM132960181

The PearlCityCompany's copy department, which does almost all of the photocopying for the sales department and the administrative department, budgets the following costs for the year, based on the expected activity of5,900,000copies:

Salaries (fixed) $118,000
Employee benefits (fixed) 14,750
Depreciation of copy machines (fixed) 11,800
Utilities (fixed) 5,900
Paper (variable, one cent per copy) 59,000
Toner (variable, one cent per copy) 59,000

• The costs are assigned to two cost pools, one for fixed and one for variable costs. The costs are then assigned to the sales department and the administrative department. Fixed costs are assigned on a lump-sum basis, 40 percent to sales and 60 percent to administration. The variable costs are assigned at a rate of 2cents per copy.

Problem 1: Assuming 5,550,000 copies were made during the year, 2,950,000 for sales and 2,600,000for administration, calculate the copy department costs allocated to sales and administration.