Dean Corporation Has Two Service Departments,Power and Maintenance,and Two Production

Essay

Dean Corporation has two service departments,Power and Maintenance,and two production departments,Painting and Polishing.The following data have been estimated for next year's operations: Requirements:
(1)Identify which service department would you use kilowatt hours to allocate service costs,and which you would use square footage to allocate service costs.
(2)Distribute the service department costs using the direct distribution method.
(3)Prepare the journal entries to distribute the costs of the service departments to the production departments given the results of your calculations.