Problem 7-17 (Algo) Comparing Traditional and Activity-Based Product Margins [LO7-1, LO7-3, LO7-4, LO7-5]

Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

	Xtreme			Pathfinder
Selling price per unit	$	132.00		$	94.00
Direct materials per unit	$	64.60		$	53.00
Direct labor per unit	$	9.60		$	8.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.2	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		24,000	units		70,000	units

The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:

Estimated total manufacturing overhead	$	2,470,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours		98,800	DLHs

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system.

2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools (the Other cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs):

	Estimated Overhead Cost			Expected Activity
Activities and Activity Measures				Xtreme	Pathfinder	Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)	$	642,200		28,800	70,000	98,800
Batch setups (setups)		915,000		350	260	610
Product sustaining (number of products)		840,000		1	1	2
Other		72,800		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	2,470,000

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system.

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.