Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning...

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Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

Xtreme Pathfinder
Selling price per unit $ 120.00 $ 92.00
Direct materials per unit $ 63.50 $ 54.00
Direct labor per unit $ 13.50 $ 9.00
Direct labor-hours per unit 1.5 DLHs 1.0 DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales 24,000 units 71,000 units

The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:

Estimated total manufacturing overhead $ 2,033,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours 107,000 DLHs

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system.

2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools (the Other cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs):

Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity
Activities and Activity Measures Xtreme Pathfinder Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 663,400 36,000 71,000 107,000
Batch setups (setups) 572,000 240 200 440
Product sustaining (number of products) 750,000 1 1 2
Other 47,600 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,033,000

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Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Xtreme Pathfinder Total
Product margin $186,000 $710,000 $896,000

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

Xtreme Pathfinder Total
Product margin $(64,000) $960,000 $896,000

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and "Percentage" answers to 1 decimal place.)

Xtreme Pathfinder Total
% of % of
Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount
Traditional Cost System
Direct materials $1,524,000 57.0 % $3,834,000 66.0 % $5,358,000
Direct labor 486,000 18.0 % 639,000 11.0 % 1,125,000
Manufacturing overhead 684,000 25.0 % 1,349,000 23.0 % 2,033,000
Total cost assigned to products $2,694,000 $5,822,000 $8,516,000
Xtreme Pathfinder Total
% of % of
Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount
Activity-Based Costing System
Direct costs:
Direct materials $1,524,000 52.0 % $3,834,000 69.0 % $5,358,000
Direct labor 486,000 17.0 % 639,000 11.0 % 1,125,000
Indirect costs:
Supporting direct labor 223,200 8.0 % 440,200 8.0 % 663,400
Batch setups 312,000 11.0 % 260,000 5.0 % 572,000
Product sustaining 375,000 13.0 % 375,000 7.0 % 750,000
Total cost assigned to products $2,920,200 $5,548,200 $8,468,400
Costs not assigned to products:
Other 47,600
Total cost $8,516,000

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