Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsXtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these...
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Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsXtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:
Xtreme
Pathfinder
Selling price per unit
$
138.00
$
90.00
Direct materials per unit
$
64.40
$
51.00
Direct labor per unit
$
13.50
$
9.00
Direct labor-hours per unit
1.5
DLHs
1.0
DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales
22,000
units
73,000
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
$
2,438,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours
106,000
DLHs
Required:
1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)
Xtreme
Pathfinder
Total
Product margin
$0
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
Activity
Activities and Activity Measures
Overhead Cost
Xtreme
Pathfinder
Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)
$
646,600
33,000
73,000
106,000
Batch setups (setups)
969,000
330
240
570
Product sustaining (number of products)
780,000
1
1
2
Other
42,400
NA
NA
NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost
$
2,438,000
Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
Xtreme
Pathfinder
Total
Product margin
$0
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