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

	Xtreme			Pathfinder
Selling price per unit	$	126.00			$	91.00
Direct materials per unit	$	63.20			$	51.00
Direct labor per unit	$	11.70			$	9.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.3	DLHs			1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		21,000	units			75,000	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	$	2,250,600
Estimated total direct labor-hours		102,300		DLHs

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

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				Activity
Activities and Activity Measures	Overhead Cost					Xtreme			Pathfinder			Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)	$	767,250				27,300			75,000			102,300
Batch setups (setups)		722,000				210			170			380
Product sustaining (number of products)		670,000				1			1			2
Other		91,350				NA			NA			NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	2,250,600

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your "Percentage" answer to 1 decimal place. (i.e. .1234 should be entered as 12.3))

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the tradtional and activity-based cost assignments. (Do not round intermediate calcul (i.e. .1234 should be entered as 12.3)) Xtreme Pathfinder Total %of %of Amount Total Amount AmountTotal Amount Amount Traditional Cost System Total cost assigned to products S Xtreme Pathfinder Total 96 of 96 of AmountTotal Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs Indirect costs