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 Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss $ 1,649,700 1,229,128 420,572 630,000 $ (209,428) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $19 per unit and 12,600 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: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold 8300 2500 $ 400,900 $ 162,300 $ 120,900 $42,500 Total $ 563,200 163,400 502,528 ces $ 1,229,128 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $56,000 and $107,000 of the company's 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 company's manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure). Machining (machine-hours) Setups (setup hours) Other (organization-sustaining costs). Product-sustaining (number of products) Total manufacturing overhead cost Required: Manufacturing Overhead 1300 Activity T500 Total $211,278 90,400 62,700 130,050 79 210 100,400 1 1 153,100 289 2 60,800 $502,528 NA NA 1. Compute the product margins for the 8300 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. < Prev 3 of 3 Next >