Required: 1. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. 2.  

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, makes two industrial component parts-B300 and T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown below: Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses $ 1,772,200 1,215,134 557,066 650,000 Net operating loss $ (92,934) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,700 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 B300 $ 400,600 $ 120,800 T500 $ 162,900 $ 42,500 Total $ 563,500 163,300 488,334 $ 1,215,134 The company created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $106,000 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) Product-sustaining (number of products) Other (organization-sustaining costs) Total manufacturing overhead cost Required: Manufacturing Overhead $ 209,884 118,250 100,000 B300 90,300 Activity T500 62,900 75 200 1 1 Total 153,200 275 2 60,200 NA NA $ 488,334 1. Compute the product margins for B300 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.