Brunswick Parts is a small manufacturing firm located in eastern Canada. The company, founded in 1947. produces metal parts for many of the larger manufacturing firms located in both Canada and the United States prides itself on high quality and customer service, and many of its customers have been buying at least some of their parts from Brunswick since the 1950s. Production of the parts takes place in one of two plants. The older plant located in Fredericton, was purchased when the company was founded, and the last malor improvements to the plant took place in the 1970s. A newer plant. located in Moncton, was but in 1995 to take advantage of the expanding markets. The same part can be produced in ether plant, and the final scheduling decision is based on capacity, transportation costs, and production costs. At a weeky production meeting. Sara Hunter the manufacturing manager expresses her frustration at trying to schedule production Something isn't right. We build a new plant to take advantage of new manufacturing technology and we struggle to keep it filled. We didn't have this problem a few years ago when we couldn't keep up with demand, but with the current economy, marketing keeps sending orders to the old plant in Fredericton. I know manufacturing, but I guess must not understand accounting. The latest order that generated discussion among plant management was placed by Lawrence Machine Tool Company a long-time customer. The order called for 1000 units of a special rod (P28) used in one of ts many products. The order was received by the marketing department. Following the established procedure at Brunswick, the marketing manager checked the product costs for both plants. Because quality and transportation costs would be the same from either plant, a decision was made to produce and ship from the Fredericton plant. The cost system at Brunswick is a traditional manufacturing cost system, Plant Overhead (including plant depreciation) is allocated to products based on estimated production for the period. Separate overhead rates are computed for each plant. Corporate administration costs are allocated to the plants based on the estimated production in the plant for purposes of executive performance measurement Production is measured by direct labor-hours. Cost and production Information for P28 follows. Per unit of P2B Direet material (1 kilogram @ $20) Moncton Fredericton $20 $20 3 hours Direct labor-hours Direct labor wage rate hours Fredericton Corporate and plant overhead budgets are as follows: Corporate Administration Moncton Corporate Marketing $155,000 105,000 Depreciation 105,000 General administration 155,000 Plant overhead before corporate allocations): Supervision $ 105,000 Indirect labor 205,000 Depreciation 898,000 Miscellaneous 105,000 Total $520,000 $1,313,000 Estimated production direct labor 101,000 hours) $155,000 260.000 55,000 155,000 $625,000 125,000 Required: a. What would be the reported product cost of P28 per unit for the two plants? Moncton Fredericton Product Cost per unit per unit