Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales	$	1,763,700
Cost of goods sold		1,239,338
Gross margin		524,362
Selling and administrative expenses		560,000
Net operating loss	$	(35,638	)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,700 units of T500 at a price of $39 per unit. The companys 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 companys two product lines is shown below:

	B300		T500		Total
Direct materials	$	400,800	$	162,100	$	562,900
Direct labor	$	120,800	$	42,400		163,200
Manufacturing overhead						513,238
Cost of goods sold					$	1,239,338

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $102,000 of the companys advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the companys manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

	Manufacturing Overhead			Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)				B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$	205,288		91,000	62,200	153,200
Setups (setup hours)		145,550		75	280	355
Product-sustaining (number of products)		101,600		1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,800		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	513,238

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys 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.

• Required 1

Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

	B300	T500	Total
Product margin

• Required 2

Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

	B300	T500	Total
Product margin

• Required 3

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			Total
		% of			% of
	Amount			Amount			Amount
Traditional Cost System
			%			%
			%			%
			%			%
Total cost assigned to products
Total cost
	B300			T500			Total
		% of			% of
	Amount	Total Amount		Amount	Total Amount		Amount
Activity-Based Costing System
Direct costs:
			%			%
			%			%
			%			%
Indirect costs:
			%			%
			%			%
			%			%
Total cost assigned to products
Costs not assigned to products:
Total cost