Question

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 $ 130.00 $ 91.00 Direct materials per unit $ 64.30 $ 50.00 Direct labor per unit $ 11.20 $ 8.00 Direct labor-hours per unit 1.4 DLHs 1.0 DLHs Estimated annual production and sales 21,000 units 72,000 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 $ 2,230,800 Estimated total direct labor-hours 101,400 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): Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity Activities and Activity Measures Xtreme Pathfinder Total Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 699,660 29,400 72,000 101,400 Batch setups (setups) 660,000 320 230 550 Product sustaining (number of products) 780,000 1 1 2 Other 91,140 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,230,800 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.

Answer 1