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 $ 1,706,000 Cost of goods sold 1,221,346 Gross margin 484,654 Selling and administrative expenses 590,000 Net operating loss $ (105,346 ) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,100 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $40 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 $ 162,300 $ 563,100 Direct labor $ 120,100 $ 42,100 162,200 Manufacturing overhead 496,046 Cost of goods sold $ 1,221,346 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $54,000 and $103,000 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) $ 208,896 91,000 62,600 153,600 Setups (setup hours) 124,650 77 200 277 Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,800 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,700 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 496,046 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.