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Problem 7-16 Comparing Traditional and Activity-Based Product Margins [LO7-1, LO7-3, LO7-4, LO7-5] Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., 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 Inc. Income Statement Sales $ 1,642,900 Cost of goods sold 1,247,032 Gross margin 395,868 Selling and administrative expenses 610,000 Net operating loss $ (214,132 ) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $19 per unit and 12,700 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: B300 T500 Total Direct materials $ 400,200 $ 162,300 $ 562,500 Direct labor $ 120,100 $ 42,500 162,600 Manufacturing overhead 521,932 Cost of goods sold $ 1,247,032 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $54,000 and $107,000 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: Manufacturing Overhead Activity Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 207,672 90,200 62,500 152,700 Setups (setup hours) 153,560 79 270 349 Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,400 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,300 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 521,932 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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