Eclipse Motor Company manufactures two types ofspecialty electric motors, a commercial motor and a residential motor, through two production departments, Assembly and Testing. Presently, the company uses a single plantwide factory overhead rate for allocating factory overhead to the two products. However, management is considering using the multiple production department factory overhead rate method. The following factory overhead was budgeted for Eclipse: Assembly Department 5280,000 Testing Department 800,000 Total $1,08o,ooo Direct machine hours were estimated as follows: Assembly Department 4LOUD hours Tasting Department 51000 Total 1000 hours In addition, the direct machine hours (dmh) used to produce a unit of each product in each department were determined from engineering records, as follows: CDmmerE'lal Msidential Assembly Department 2.0 drnh 3.0 dmh Testing Department 6.0 1.5 Total machine hours per unit 8.0 dmh 4.5 dmh a. Determine the pEFunll factory overhead allocated to the commercial and residential motors under the single plantWIde factory overhead rate method, using direct machine hours as the allocation base. Commercial per unit DU Residential per unit h. Determine the per-unit rettdry overhead allocated to the commercial and residential motors under the multiple production department factory overhead rate method, Using direct machine hours as the allocation base for each department. Commercial per unit Residential ED per unit c. Recommend to management a product costing approach. based on your analyses in (a) and (b). 1. The management should consider multiple production department factory overhead rate methodsy because this method calculates the cost more accurately and considers the fact that commercial products use more costly overheads than residential products. 2. The management should consider single plantvdide factory overhead rate methods, because this method calculates the cost more accurately and considers the fact that the overheads are applied evenly based on the direct labor hours. 3. The management could consider either multiple production department factory overhead rate method or the single plantWide rate, as both these methods have the same effect o the nal costs. 1 - J