Question

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales	$	1,649,700
Cost of goods sold		1,209,308
Gross margin		440,392
Selling and administrative expenses		620,000
Net operating loss	$	(179,608	)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $19 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company’s 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 company’s two product lines is shown below:

	B300		T500		Total
Direct materials	$	400,700	$	162,400	$	563,100
Direct labor	$	121,000	$	42,600		163,600
Manufacturing overhead						482,608
Cost of goods sold					$	1,209,308

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $60,000 and $102,000 of the company’s 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 company’s manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

	Manufacturing Overhead			Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)				B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$	201,168		90,200	62,200	152,400
Setups (setup hours)		120,540		77	210	287
Product-sustaining (number of products)		100,600		1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,300		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	482,608

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company’s traditional costing system.

2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system.

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

• Required 1
• Required 2
• Required 3

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 and and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.)

	B300 T500 Total % of % of Amount Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products Total cost 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 Costs not assigned to products: Total cost

Answer 1