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The Dedham Cooperative Bank is considering either a bank wide overhead rate or departmental overhead rates to allocate $2,000,000 of indirect costs. The bank wide rate would be based on either direct labor hours or the number of loans processed. The departmental rates would be based on direct labor time for Consumer Loans and a dual rate based on direct labor time and the number of loans processed for
Commercial Loans. The following information was gathered for the upcoming period:

-The bank estimates that the Commercial Department will result in $3,000,000 of revenues in 2008. If the indirect costs are allocated based on direct labor hours, what profit before tax will be generated by the Commercial Department?
A) $1,900,000
B) $2,300,000
C) $2,800,000
D) $2,000,000
E) *** $2,000,000/20,000 = $100

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The Dedham Cooperative Bank is considering either a bank wide overhead rate or departmental overhead rates to allocate $2,000,000 of indirect costs. The bank wide rate would be based on either direct labor hours or the number of loans processed. The departmental rates would be based on direct labor time for Consumer Loans and a dual rate based on direct labor time and the number of loans processed for
Commercial Loans. The following information was gathered for the upcoming period:
 
-The bank estimates that the Commercial Department will result in $3,000,000 of revenues in 2008. If the indirect costs are allocated based on direct labor hours, what profit before tax will be generated by the Commercial Department?
A) $1,900,000 
B) $2,300,000 
C) $2,800,000 
D) $2,000,000 
E) *** $2,000,000/20,000 = $100

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Without specific details on the indirect costs and direct labor hours, it's impossible to calculate the exact profit before tax. However, choice E seems to be an error or unrelated calculation, and without the necessary information to calculate based on the given options, the correct answer cannot be determined from the provided information.

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