Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, makes two industrial component parts-B300 and T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown below: Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,500 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,500 units of T500 at a price of $39 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: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold $ 1,758,000 1,252,580 505,420 550,000 $ (44,580) B300 $ 400,700 $ 120,900 Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Machining (machine-hours) Setups (setup hours) Product-sustaining (number of products) Other (organization-sustaining costs) Total manufacturing overhead cost T500 $ 162,300 $ 42,200 The company created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $59,000 and $108,000 of the company's advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the lling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company's manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Total $ 563,000 163, 100 526,480 $ 1,252,580 Manufacturing Overhead $ 206,280 158,400 101,400 60,400 $ 526,480 B300 90,600 80 1 ΝΑ Activity T500 62,200 280 1 ΝΑ Total 152,800 Required: 1. Compute the product margins for 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. 360 2 ΝΑ