Problem 7-17 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: Selling price per unit Direct materials per unit Direct labor per unit Direct labor-hours per unit Estimated annual production and sales Xtreme $ 121.00 $ 64.70 $ 10.80 1.2 DLHS 25,000 units Pathfinder $ 88.00 $ 54.00 $ 9.00 1.0 DLHS 71,000 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 Estimated total direct labor-hours $ 2,020,000 101,000 DLHS Required: 1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company's 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): Activities and Activity Measures Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) Batch setups (setups) Product sustaining (number of products) Other Total manufacturing overhead cost Estimated Expected Activity Overhead Cost Xtreme Pathfinder Total $ 606,000 30,000 71,000 101,000 693,000 360 270 630 700,000 1 1 2 21,000 NA NA NA $ 2,020,000 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