Problem 7-16 (Algo) Comparing Traditional and Activity-Based Product Margins [LO7-1, LO7-3, LO7-4, LO7-5]

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, 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 Incorporated Income Statement
Sales	$ 1,712,000
Cost of goods sold	1,216,755
Gross margin	495,245
Selling and administrative expenses	620,000
Net operating loss	$ (124,755)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 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	$ 162,700	$ 563,500
Direct labor	$ 120,400	$ 42,200	162,600
Manufacturing overhead			490,655
Cost of goods sold			$ 1,216,755

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $53,000 and $106,000 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:

Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)	Manufacturing Overhead	Activity
		B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$ 210,295	90,600	62,900	153,500
Setups (setup hours)	118,860	73	210	283
Product-sustaining (number of products)	101,400	1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)	60,100	NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$ 490,655

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.