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Problem 7-17 Comparing Traditional and Activity-Based Product Margins [LO7-1, LO7-3, LO7-4, LO7-5]
Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—the 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 company’s 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 | ||||
Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system.
3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.