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	$	120.00		$	87.00
Direct materials per unit	$	63.30		$	52.00
Direct labor per unit	$	17.00		$	10.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.7	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		22,000	units		76,000	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	$	1,927,800
Estimated total direct labor-hours		113,400	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)	$	703,080		37,400	76,000	113,400
Batch setups (setups)		480,000		220	180	400
Product sustaining (number of products)		700,000		1	1	2
Other		44,720		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	1,927,800

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.

Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company's traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.) Xtreme Pathfinder Total Product margin $ Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) Xtreme Pathfinder Total Product margin $ $ Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and "Percentage" answers to 1 decimal place.) Total Xtreme % of Amount Total Amount Pathfinder % of Amount Total Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % % % Total cost assigned to products $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 Total Xtreme % of Amount Total Amount Pathfinder % of Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % % % % Indirect costs: % % % % % % 0 0 0 Total cost assigned to products Costs not assigned to products: Total cost $ 0