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 $ 121.00 $ 85.00 Direct materials per unit $ 64.90 $ 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 27,000 units 70,000 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 $ 2,156,000 Estimated total direct labor-hours 107,800 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) $ 700,700 37,800 70,000 107,800 Batch setups (setups) 737,000 380 290 670 Product sustaining (number of products) 640,000 1 1 2 Other 78,300 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,156,000 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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