1r2 e 100% + El (9 Quiz_3_1357 Jackson Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component partsthe XT 100 and the LT-200. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown: Jackson Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement Sales 52.100300 Cost of goods sold 1.600.000 Gross margin 500.000 Selling and administrative expenses 550,000 Net operating loss $ (50,000) Table Summary: Income statement with two-line heading. Descriptions of income items are in rst column and dollar values in second column. Jackson produced and sold 70,000 units of XT-100 at a price of $20 per unit and 17,500 units of LT-200 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: XT-100 LT-200 Total Direct materials $436,300 $251,700 $ 688.000 Direct labor $200,000 $104,000 304,000 Manufacturing overhead 608.000 Cost of goods sold $1,600,000 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Jackson's ABC implementation team concluded that $50,000 and $100,000 of the company's advertising expenses could be directly traced to XT-100 and LT-200, 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: 1 . . | 2 Activity Activity Cost Pool (and Manufacturing Activity Measure) Overhead XT-100 LT-200 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 213,500 90,000 62,500 152,500 Setups (setup hours) 157,500 75 300 375 Product-sustaining (number of products) 120,000 1 271119 100% E Activity Activity Cost Pool (and Manufacturing Activity Measure) Overhead XT-100 LT-200 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 213,500 90,000 62,500 152,500 Setups (setup hours) 157,500 75 300 375 Product-sustaining (number of products) 120,000 1 1 2 Other (organization- sustaining costs) 117,000 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $608,000 Table Summary: Table shows activity data for two products. First column lists activity 2 cost pools and activity measures. Second column shows manufacturing overhead for each cost pool. Columns 3-5 show activity numbers for the two products and their totals. The XT-100, LT-200, and Total columns are under the spanner heading Activity. Required: 1. Compute the product margins for the XT-100 and LT-200 under the company's traditional costing system. 2. Compute the product margins for XT-100 and LT-200 under the activity-based costing system. 3. Explain why the traditional and activity-based cost assignments differ. 4. What advice would you give the management of Jackson Manufacturing regarding pricing of products in the future