Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, 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 Incorporated Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,500 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: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Machining (machine-hours) Setups (setup hours) 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 $108,000 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: Product-sustaining (number of products) Other (organization-sustaining costs) Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 1,768,400 1,232,698 535,702 570,000 $ (34,298) B300 T500 $ 400,600 $ 162,400 $ 121,000 $ 42,200 Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Product margin Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Total $ 563,000 163,200 506,498 $ 1,232,698 B300 Manufacturing Overhead $ 204,618 139,480 101,800 60,600 $ 506,498 T500 B300 90,500 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. 77 1 Total ΝΑ Activity T500 62,200 240 1 ΝΑ Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.) Total 152,700 317 2 ΝΑ
Variance Analysis
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Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
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