1.

Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

	Xtreme			Pathfinder
Selling price per unit	$	130.00		$	91.00
Direct materials per unit	$	64.30		$	50.00
Direct labor per unit	$	11.20		$	8.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.4	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		21,000	units		72,000	units

The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:

Estimated total manufacturing overhead	$	2,230,800
Estimated total direct labor-hours		101,400	DLHs

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system.

2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools (the Other cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs):

	Estimated Overhead Cost			Expected Activity
Activities and Activity Measures				Xtreme	Pathfinder	Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)	$	699,660		29,400	72,000	101,400
Batch setups (setups)		660,000		320	230	550
Product sustaining (number of products)		780,000		1	1	2
Other		91,140		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	2,230,800

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system.

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

Complete LNIS question by entering your anSwers m the tabs belovw. Required 1 Required Required 3 Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Ro your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) Xtreme Pathfinder Total Product margin $1,213,200 $ 1,213,200 Required 3 Requ Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calcu decimal places and "Percentage" answers to 1 decimal place.) Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % Total cost assigned to products 0 0 0 Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % Indirect costs: % Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % Indirect costs % % Total cost assigned to products Costs not assigned to products: Total cost Required 2 Required 3 EA