Question: Make sure all 4 parts are completed for the question... I have included the way it needs to be answered on the homework assignment Hi-Tek

Make sure all 4 parts are completed for the question... I have included the way it needs to be answered on the homework assignment

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown below

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales $ 1,643,800
Cost of goods sold 1,238,340
Gross margin 405,460
Selling and administrative expenses 640,000
Net operating loss $ (234,540)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $19 per unit and 12,500 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The companys 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 companys two product lines is shown below:

B300 T500 Total
Direct materials $ 400,600 $ 162,300 $ 562,900
Direct labor $ 120,900 $ 42,500 163,400
Manufacturing overhead 512,040
Cost of goods sold $ 1,238,340

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $53,000 and $108,000 of the companys 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 companys manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

Manufacturing

Activity

Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Overhead B300 T500 Total
Machining (machine-hours) $ 212,670 90,800 62,200 153,000
Setups (setup hours) 138,170 77 260 337
Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,200 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 61,000 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 512,040

Required
1.

Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole dollars.)

2.

Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

3.

Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and "Percentage" answer to 1 decimal place. (i.e. .1234 should be entered as 12.3) and other answers to nearest whole dollar amounts.)Make sure all 4 parts are completed for the question... I haveincluded the way it needs to be answered on the homework assignment

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