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Lauder Company manufactures and distributes various fixtures used primarily in new building construction. At the company's Bayside plant, Lauder produces two models of one widely used fixture designated by model names LC-20 and LC-50. Currently, the Bayside plant uses direct labor-hours to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to products.

The vice presidentmanufacturing (VP-M) at Lauder has recently been considering updates to the company's costing systems as a way to ensure that managers had the best information available for decision making. However, rather than update throughout the entire firm, the VPM and CFO agreed to test an ABC system. Because of its size and focus, the Bayside plant was selected for the experiment. An ABC study team, consisting of both plant and corporate employees was formed to propose an ABC system and compare the product costs with those reported by the current system. Based on the experiment, the executives at Lauder will decide whether to roll out the new cost system to the entire company.

The study team identified four cost pools into which the manufacturing overhead costs could be grouped. There was a great deal of discussion about both the pools and the cost drivers. The final system selected consisted of the following pools and drivers. The costs were based on the forecasts for the coming year.

Cost Pools	Costs	Activity Drivers
Material inspection	$ 459,360	Direct material cost
Assembly	2,563,600	Machine-hours
Equipment setup	916,400	Production runs
Packaging and shipping	487,200	Units shipped

Data for production of the two products at the Bayside plant for the coming year of operations follows:

	Products
LC-20	LC-50
Total direct material costs	$ 626,400	$ 208,800
Total direct labor costs	$ 487,200	$ 243,600
Total machine-hours	106,865	53,360
Total number of production runs	87	58
Number of units produced and shipped	278,400	69,600

All direct labor at the Bayside plant is paid $35 per hour.

Required:

a. What unit product costs will be reported for the two products in the coming year if the current cost system continues to be used?

b. What unit product costs will be reported for the two products if the ABC system is used?