Reference no: EM132515639
Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,500 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 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 $ 400,800 $ 162,100 $ 562,900
Direct labor $ 120,700 $ 42,100 162,800
Manufacturing overhead 489,045
Cost of goods sold $ 1,214,745
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 $105,000 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) $ 210,295 90,800 62,700 153,500
Setups (setup hours) 116,850 75 210 285
Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,600 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,300 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 489,045
Required:
Question 1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system.
Question 2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system.