Answer for Required 1 is NOT B300=-253283, T500=90571, Total=-162712

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Incorporated Income Statement
Sales	$ 1,695,400
Cost of goods sold	1,238,112
Gross margin	457,288
Selling and administrative expenses	620,000
Net operating loss	$ (162,712)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $39 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	$ 162,200	$ 562,500
Direct labor	$ 120,400	$ 42,600	163,000
Manufacturing overhead			512,612
Cost of goods sold			$ 1,238,112

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $102,000 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:

Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)	Manufacturing Overhead	Activity
		B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$ 208,352	90,300	62,900	153,200
Setups (setup hours)	142,760	72	260	332
Product-sustaining (number of products)	100,600	1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)	60,900	NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$ 512,612

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys traditional costing system.
2. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.