7) Layton Company operates a free day-care center for the benefit of its employees. The
company subsidizes the day-care center heavily and charges only a very nominal fee to
employees using the center services. Budgeted and actual costs in the day-care center
for the most recent year are as follows:
The variable costs of the day-care center are charged to operating departments on the
basis of employees in their departments. Data concerning these operating departments
follow:
The level of budgeted fixed costs in the day-care center is determined by the
peak-period requirements.
Required:
a. Compute the dollar amount of the variable and fixed costs that should have been
charged to each of the operating departments at the end of the year for purposes of
evaluating performance.
b. Identify the amount, if any, of actual costs that should not be charged to the operating
departments for performance evaluation purposes.