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

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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 1,242,272
Gross margin 467,728
Selling and administrative expenses 650,000
Net operating loss $ (182,272)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 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 $ 400,500 $ 162,600 $ 563,100
Direct labor $ 120,800 $ 42,600 163,400
Manufacturing overhead 515,772
Cost of goods sold $ 1,242,272

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $56,000 and $106,000 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) $ 200,692 90,900 62,300 153,200
Setups (setup hours) 153,080 76 280 356
Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,800 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,200 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 515,772

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Required 1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole dollars.) 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.) Total B300 T500 Product margin

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