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	$	138.00		$	90.00
Direct materials per unit	$	64.40		$	51.00
Direct labor per unit	$	13.50		$	9.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.5	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		22,000	units		73,000	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	$	2,438,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours		106,000	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)	$	646,600		33,000	73,000	106,000
Batch setups (setups)		969,000		330	240	570
Product sustaining (number of products)		780,000		1	1	2
Other		42,400		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	2,438,000

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.

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 $ 138.00 $ 64.40 $ 13.50 1.5 DLHS 22,000 units Pathfinder $ 90.00 $ 51.00 $ 9.00 1.0 DLHS 73,000 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 $ 2,438,000 106,000 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 Overhead Cost $ 646,600 969,000 780,000 42,400 $ 2,438,000 Expected Activity Xtreme Pathfinder Total 33,000 73,000 106,000 330 240 570 1 1 2 NA NA NA 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. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. 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 Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. 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 Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. 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.) Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % % % % Indirect costs: % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products Costs not assigned to products: Total cost