Kragan Clothing Company manufactures its own designed and labeled athletic wear and sells its products through catalog sales and retail outlets. While Kragan has for years used activity-based costing in its manufacturing activities, it has always used traditional costing in assigning its selling costs to its product lines. Selling costs have traditionally been assigned to Kragans product lines at a rate of 70% of direct materials costs. Its direct materials costs for the month of March for Kragans high-intensity line of athletic wear are $395,000. The company has decided to extend activity-based costing to its selling costs. Data relating to the high-intensity line of products for the month of March are as follows. Activity Cost Pools Cost Drivers Overhead Rate Number of Cost Drivers Used per Activity Sales commissions Dollar sales $0.05 per dollar sales $940,000 AdvertisingTV Minutes $300 per minute 230 AdvertisingInternet Column inches $10 per column inch 2,000 Catalogs Catalogs mailed $2.50 per catalog 62,400 Cost of catalog sales Catalog orders $1 per catalog order 8,750 Credit and collection Dollar sales $0.03 per dollar sales 940,000 Collapse question part (a) Compute the selling costs to be assigned to the high-intensity line of athletic wear for the month of March (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct materials cost is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing.

Exercise 18-10 (Part Level Submission) Kragan Clothing Company manufactures its own designed and labeled athletic wear and sells its products through catalog sales and retail outlets. While Kragan has for years used activity-based costing in its manufacturing activities, it has always used traditional costing in assigning its selling costs to its product lines. Selling costs have traditionally been assigned to Kragan's product lines at a rate of 70% of direct materials costs, its direct materials costs for the month of March for Kragan's "high-intensity" line of athletic wear are $395,000. The company has decided to extend activity-based costing to its selling costs. Data relating to the "high-intensity" line of products for the month of March are as follows. Number of Cost Drivers Used per Activit Activity Cost PoolsCost Drivers Rate Sales commissions Advertising-TV Advertising-Internet Catalogs Cost of catalog sales Credit and collection Dollar sales Minutes Column inches Catalogs mailed Catalog orders Dollar sales $940,000 230 2,000 62,400 8,750 940,000 $0.05 per dollar sales $300 per minute 10 per column inch $2.50 per catalog $1 per catalog order $0.03 per dollar sales ? (a) Compute the selling costs to be assigned to the "high-intensity line of athletic wear for the month of March (1) using the traditional product costing system (direct materials cost is the cost driver), and (2) using activity-based costing Traditional product costing Activity-based costing Selling cost to be assigned s LINK TO TEXT LINK TO TEXT LINK TO TEXT