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 $ 1,757,700
Cost of goods sold 1,233,650
Gross margin 524,050
Selling and administrative expenses 600,000
Net operating loss $ (75,950)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $21 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 $ 400,200 $ 162,200 $ 562,400
Direct labor $ 120,700 $ 42,100 162,800
Manufacturing overhead 508,450
Cost of goods sold $ 1,233,650

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $58,000 and $104,000 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) $ 208,760 91,000 62,500 153,500
Setups (setup hours) 138,990 79 260 339
Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,600 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,100 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 508,450
Required
1.

Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole dollars.)

B300 T500 Total
Product margin $0

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 margin $0
3.

Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and "Percentage" answer to 1 decimal place. (i.e. .1234 should be entered as 12.3) and other answers to nearest whole dollar amounts.)

B300 T500 Total
% of % of
Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount
Traditional Cost System
Total cost assigned to products $0 $0 0
Total cost $0

B300 T500 Total
% of % of
Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount
Activity-Based Costing System
Direct costs:
Indirect costs:
Total cost assigned to products $0 $0 $0
Costs not assigned to products:
Total cost $0

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