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 $ 1,712,000 Cost of goods sold 1,211,684 Gross margin 500,316 Selling and administrative expenses 620,000 Net operating loss $ (119,684) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $20 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 $ 400,300 $ 162,300 $ 562,600 Direct labor $ 120,000 $ 42,200 162,200 Manufacturing overhead 486,884 Cost of goods sold $ 1,211,684 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $59,000 and $103,000 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: Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Manufacturing Overhead Activity B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 205,154 90,700 62,400 153,100 Setups (setup hours) 120,130 73 220 293 Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,800 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,800 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 486,884 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.
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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 |
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Sales | $ 1,712,000 |
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Cost of goods sold | 1,211,684 |
Gross margin | 500,316 |
Selling and administrative expenses | 620,000 |
Net operating loss | $ (119,684) |
Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company’s traditional cost system allocates manufacturing
B300 | T500 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Direct materials | $ 400,300 | $ 162,300 | $ 562,600 |
Direct labor | $ 120,000 | $ 42,200 | 162,200 |
Manufacturing overhead | 486,884 | ||
Cost of goods sold | $ 1,211,684 |
The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $59,000 and $103,000 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:
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) | Manufacturing Overhead | Activity | ||
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B300 | T500 | Total | ||
Machining (machine-hours) | $ 205,154 | 90,700 | 62,400 | 153,100 |
Setups (setup hours) | 120,130 | 73 | 220 | 293 |
Product-sustaining (number of products) | 100,800 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Other (organization-sustaining costs) | 60,800 | NA | NA | NA |
Total |
$ 486,884 |
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.
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