Cain components manufactures and distributes

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Cain Components manufactures and distributes various plumbing products used in homes and other buildings. Over time, the production staff has noticed that products they considered easy to make were difficult to sell at margins considered reasonable while products that seemed to take a lot of staff time were selling well despite recent price increases. A summer intern has suggested that the cost system might be providing misleading information.

The controller decided that a good summer project for the intern would be to develop, in one self-contained area of the plant, an alternative cost system with which to compare the current system. The intern identified the following cost pools and, after discussion with some plant personnel, appropriate cost drivers for each pool.

Cost Pools		Costs	Activity Drivers
Receiving	$	1,181,920	Direct material cost
Manufacturing		7,552,000	Machine-hours
Machine setup		1,220,920	Number of setups
Shipping	$	1,173,120	Units shipped

In this particular area, Cain produces two of its many products: Standard and Deluxe. The following are data for production for the latest full year of operations:

			Products

		Standard			Deluxe
Total direct material costs	$	550,000		$	162,000
Total direct labor costs	$	960,000		$	560,000
Total machine-hours		200,000			120,000
Total number of setups		106			156
Total pounds of material		49,000			40,000
Total direct labor-hours		21,500			11,500
Number of units produced and shipped		21,600			6,600

Required:

a. The current cost accounting system charges overhead to products based on machine-hours.What unit will product costs be reported for the two products if the current cost system continues to be used? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round costs to the nearest dollar.)

b. The intern suggests an ABC system using the cost drivers identified above. What unit product costs will be reported for the two products if the ABC system is used? (Do not round your intermediate computations.)

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