FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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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 $ 128.00   $ 90.00  
Direct materials per unit $ 63.10   $ 50.00  
Direct labor per unit $ 12.00   $ 8.00  
Direct labor-hours per unit   1.5 DLHs   1.0 DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales   20,000 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 $ 2,100,000  
Estimated total direct labor-hours   100,000 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) $ 745,000   30,000 70,000 100,000
Batch setups (setups)   612,000   200 160 360
Product sustaining (number of products)   700,000   1 1 2
Other   43,000   NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,100,000        
 

 

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.

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