Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

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:

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):

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

Selling price per unit Direct materials per unit Direct labor per unit Direct labor-hours per unit Estimated annual production and sales Xtreme $ 120.00 $ 64.10 $ 13.50 1.5 DLHS 30,000 units Pathfinder $ 90.00 $ 53.00 $ 9.00 1.0 DLHS 70,000 units Estimated total manufacturing overhead Estimated total direct labor-hours $ 2,300,000 115,000 DLHS 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 $ 977,500 612,000 700,000 10,500 $ 2,300,000 Expected Activity Xtreme Pathfinder Total 45,000 70,000 115,000 300 210 510 1 1 2 NA NA NA 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 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 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