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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 $ 88.00 Direct materials per unit $ 64.70 $ 54.00 Direct labor per unit $ 10.80 $ 9.00 Direct labor-hours per unit 1.2 DLHs 1.0 DLHs Estimated annual production and sales 25,000 units 71,000 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 $ 2,020,000 Estimated total direct labor-hours 101,000 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) $ 606,000 30,000 71,000 101,000 Batch setups (setups) 693,000 360 270 630 Product sustaining (number of products) 700,000 1 1 2 Other 21,000 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,020,000 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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1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company’s traditional costing system.

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Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system

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Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

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