6.1 Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500....

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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 below:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales $ 1,710,000
Cost of goods sold 1,225,336
Gross margin 484,664
Selling and administrative expenses 550,000
Net operating loss $ (65,336)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,100 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,700 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The companys 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 companys two product lines is shown below:

B300 T500 Total
Direct materials $ 400,300 $ 162,100 $ 562,400
Direct labor $ 120,600 $ 42,500 163,100
Manufacturing overhead 499,836
Cost of goods sold $ 1,225,336

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $57,000 and $103,000 of the companys 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 companys manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

Manufacturing Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Overhead B300 T500 Total
Machining (machine-hours) $ 208,896 90,900 62,700 153,600
Setups (setup hours) 130,240 76 220 296
Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,600 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,100 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 499,836

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Required 1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. (Do not round your overhead rate. Round your other intermediate and final answers to the nearest whole number.) B300 T500 Total Product margin 2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) B300 T500 Total Product marg n

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