The Charmatz Corporation Has a Central Copying Facility

Multiple Choice

The Charmatz Corporation has a central copying facility. The copying facility has only two users, the Marketing Department and the Operations Department. The following data apply to the coming budget year:

Budgeted amounts are used to calculate the allocation rates.
Actual usage for the year by the Marketing Department was 120,000 copies and by the Operations Department was 360,000 copies. If a dual-rate cost-allocation method is used, what amount of copying facility costs will be allocated to the Operations Department? Assume budgeted usage is used to allocate fixed copying costs and actual usage is used to allocate variable copying costs.

A) $69,000
B) $117,000
C) $70,980
D) $69,480