Required information 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. There were: $ Cost Pools Receiving Manufacturing Machine setup Shipping Costs 600,eee 5,500,000 900.000 1,eee,eee Activity Drivers Direct material cost Machine-hours Production runs 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. Total direct material costs Total direct labor costs Total machine-hours Total number of setups Total pounds of material Total direct labor-hours unber of units produced and shipped Products Standard Deluxe $220.00 5180.ee $650,000 $300,000 140,000 110,000 180 15.50 11,500 6,250 4.000 15,000 le, e Required: a. The current cost accounting system charges overhead to products based on machine-hours. What unit product costs will be reported for the two products if the current cost system continues to be used? 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