Question

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 $ 121.00 $ 85.00 Direct materials per unit $ 64.90 $ 51.00 Direct labor per unit $ 11.20 $ 8.00 Direct labor-hours per unit 1.4 DLHs 1.0 DLHs Estimated annual production and sales 27,000 units 70,000 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 $ 2,156,000 Estimated total direct labor-hours 107,800 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) $ 700,700 37,800 70,000 107,800 Batch setups (setups) 737,000 380 290 670 Product sustaining (number of products) 640,000 1 1 2 Other 78,300 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,156,000

Requirement 1:

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system.

Requirement 2

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company’s 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 $0 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 $0

Requirement 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.) . Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Traditional Cost System % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products $0 $0 $0 Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Activity-Based Costing System Direct costs: % % % % Indirect costs: % % % % % % Total cost assigned to products $0 $0 $0 Costs not assigned to products: Total cost $0

Answer 1