Allocating Service Department Costs: Allocation Basis Alternatives Weld-Rite Fabricators has two producing departments, P1 and P2, and one service department, S1. Estimated directed overhead costs per month are as follows: P1 $600,000 P2 1,000,000 S1 364,000 Other data follow: P1 P2 Numbers of employees 150 50 Production capacity (units) 100,000 60,000 Space occupied (square feet) 5,000 15,000 Five-year average of S1's service output used 65% 35% For each of the following allocation bases, determine the total estimated overhead cost for P1 and P2 after allocating S1 cost to the producing departments.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.