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 $ 120.00 $ 87.00 Direct materials per unit $ 65.20 $ 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 30,000 units 65,000 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 $ 2,033,000 Estimated total direct labor-hours 107,000 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): Activities and (Activity Measures) Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity Xtreme Pathfinder Total Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 631,300 42,000 65,000 107,000 Batch setups (setups) 876,000 410 320 730 Product sustaining (number of products) 460,000 1 1 2 Other 65,700 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,033,000 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.
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 | $ 120.00 | $ 87.00 | ||
Direct materials per unit | $ 65.20 | $ 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 | 30,000 | units | 65,000 | units |
The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing
Estimated total manufacturing overhead | $ 2,033,000 | |
---|---|---|
Estimated total direct labor-hours | 107,000 | 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):
Activities and (Activity Measures) | Estimated Overhead Cost | Expected Activity | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Xtreme | Pathfinder | Total | ||
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) | $ 631,300 | 42,000 | 65,000 | 107,000 |
Batch setups (setups) | 876,000 | 410 | 320 | 730 |
Product sustaining (number of products) | 460,000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Other | 65,700 | NA | NA | NA |
Total |
$ 2,033,000 |
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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