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.

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., 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 Inc. Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss $ 1,695,300 1,232,486 462,814 600,000 $ (137,186) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,000 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,700 units of T500 at a price of $39 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: B300 $ 400, 700 $ 120,900 T500 $ 162,800 $ 42,000 Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold Total $ 563,500 162,900 506,086 $ 1,232,486 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $56,000 and $100,000 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 Manufacturing Overhead $ 202, 356 142,330 101,400 60,000 $ 506,086 Activity B300 T500 Total 90,900 62,400 153, 300 71 260 331 1 1 2 NA NA NA Required: 1. Compute the product margins for the 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. B300 T500 Total % of % of Amount Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 Total cost $ 0 B300 T500 Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % % % % % % Indirect costs: % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products $ 0 $ 0 0 Costs not assigned to products: Total cost $