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

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Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. makes two types of industrialcomponent parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing incomestatement for the most recent period is shown below:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing IncIncome Statement:
SALES$ 1,693,500
COST OF GOODS SOLD1,243,934
GROSS MARGIN449,566
SELLING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES580,000
NET OPERATING LOSS$ (130,434)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $20per unit and 12,500 units of T500 at a price of $39 per unit. Thecompany’s traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overheadto products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labordollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating tothe company’s two product lines is shown below:

B300T500TOTAL
DIRECT MATERIALS$ 400,100$ 162,100$ 562,200
DIRECT LABOR$ 120,300$ 43,000163,300
MANUFACTURING OVERHEAD518,434
COST OF GOODS SOLD$ 1,243,934

The company has created an activity-based costing system toevaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABCimplementation team concluded that $56,000 and $107,000 of thecompany’s advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 andT500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrativeexpenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team alsodistributed the company’s manufacturing overhead to four activitiesas shown below:

ACTIVITY COST POOL (& ACTIVITYMEASUREMANUFACTURING OVERHEADACTIVITY
B300
ACTIVITY
T500
ACTIVITY
  TOTAL
MACHINE (MACHINE-HRS)$ 211,55490,50062,800153,300
SETUPS (SETUP HRS)146,08072260332
PRODUCT-SUSTAINING ( # OF PRODUCTS)100,800112
OTHER (ORGANIZATION-SUSTAINING COSTS)60,000NANANA
TOTAL MANUFACTURING OVERHEAD COST$ 518,434

****** Required *******

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under thecompany’s traditional costing system. (Do not round youroverhead rate. Round your other intermediate and final answers tothe nearest whole number.)

B300T500TOTAL
PRODUCT MARGIN??????

2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under theactivity-based costing system. (Negative product marginsshould be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediatecalculations to 2 decimal places.)

B300T500TOTAL
PRODUCT MARGIN??????

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional andactivity-based cost assignments. (Do not round youroverhead rate. Round your other intermediate calculations and finalanswers to the nearest whole number. Round your "Percentage" answerto 1 decimal place. (i.e. .1234 should be entered as12.3))

B300B300T500T500
% OF% OFTOTAL
AMOUNTTOTAL AMOUNTAMOUNTTOTAL AMOUNT
TRADITIONAL COST SYSTEMAMOUNT
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
TOTAL COST ASSIGNED TO PRODUCTS??????
????
TOTAL COST??
B300B300T500T500TOTAL
% OF% OF
AMOUNTTOTAL AMOUNTAMOUNTTOTAL AMOUNTAMOUNT
ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING SYSTEM
DIRECT COST:
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
INDIRECT COSTS:
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
??????%????%??
TOTAL COST ASSIGNED TO PRODUCTS??????
COSTS NOT ASSIGNED TO PRODUCTS:
????
????
TOTAL COST??

( All the "?" spaces are the ones I NEED answered)

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1 Product margin under the traditional system is B300 T500 Total A No of units 60300 12500 72800 B Sale price per unit 20 39 CAB Sale Value 1206000 487500 1693500 D Direct Material 400300 162700 563000 E Direct Labor 120300 42100 162400 FDE Total Direct Costs 520600 204800 725400 G Manufacturing Overhead 384037 134397 518434 H FG Total Product Cost 904637 339197 1243834 ICH Product Margin 301363 148303 449666 2 Product    See Answer
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