1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system.
2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system.
3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.
Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, makes two types of industrial component parts--the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown: Hi-Tek Manufacturing Incorporated Income Statement Sales $ 1,768,000 Cost of goods sold 1,249,522 Gross margin 518,478 Selling and administrative expenses 570,000 Net operating loss $ (51,522) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,000 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,700 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company's traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overhead to products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labor dollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating to the company's two product lines is shown below. B300 $ 400, 500 $ 120, 300 T500 $ 162,900 $ 42,300 Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold Total $ 563, 480 162,600 523,522 $ 1,249,522 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $60,000 and $101,000 of the company's advertising expenses could be directly traced to 8300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company's manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Manufacturing Activity Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Overhead 8300 T500 Total Machining machine-hours) $ 211,002 90,600 62,300 152,900 Setups setup hours) 150,920 73 270 Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,000 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,600 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 523,522 343 Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and "Percentage" answers to 1 decimal place and and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.) B300 T500 % of % of Total Amount Amount Amount Traditional Cost System Total cost assigned to products $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 Total cost $ B300 T500 Total Amount % of Total Amount % of Total Amount Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: Indirect costs: $ 0 0 0 Total cost assigned to products Costs not assigned to products: Total cost $ 0