The management of Hercules Engines Inc. manufactures gasoline and diesel engines through two production departments, Fabrication and Assembly. Management needs accurate product cost information in order to guide product strategy. Presently, the company uses a single plant-wide 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 Power Torque:

Fabrication Department factory overhead .....$560,000

Assembly Department factory overhead ......240,000

Total .....................$800,000

Direct labor hours were estimated as follows:

Fabrication Department .........4,000 hours

Assembly Department ........4,000

Total ...............8,000 hours

In addition, the direct labor hours (dlh) used to produce a unit of each product in each department were determined from engineering records, as follows:

a. Determine the per-unit factory overhead allocated to the gasoline and diesel engines under the single plant-wide factory overhead rate method, using direct labor hours as the activity base.
b. Determine the per-unit factory overhead allocated to the gasoline and diesel engines under the multiple production department factory overhead rate method, using direct labor hours as the activity base for each department.
c. Recommend to management a product costing approach, based on your analyses in (a) and (b). Support yourrecommendation.

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Gasoline Engine Diesel Engine Production Departments Fabrication Department Direct labor hours per unit 0.8 dlh 2.2 3.0 dlh 2.2 dlh 0.8 3.0 dlh