$8,800 of account verification costs will be assigned to Department A
Solution:
The costs audit will guarantee that cost accounting reports adhere to the standards, policies, methods and goals of cost accounting.
The cost accounting documents such as consistency of cost statements, cost recording, expense analysis, expense statistics, costing documentation and costing technologies must be checked.
Correspondence costs - Department A
= ($38,500 ÷ 7,000) × 1,600
= $8,800