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Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—Xtreme and the Pathfi

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Question

Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

Xtreme Pathfinder

Selling price per unit $115.00 $83.00   

Direct materials per unit $65.10 $50.00  

Direct labor per unit $10.00 $10.00  

Direct labor-hours per unit 1.0 DLHs 1.0 DLHs

Estimated annual production 29,000 units 71,000 units
and sales

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:


Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company’s traditional costing system.

Xtreme Pathfinder

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):

Expected Activity

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

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

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 $1,800,000              Estimated total direct labor-hours 100,000 DLHs


Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company’s traditional costing system.

Xtreme Pathfinder

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

Expected Activity

  Activities and Activity Measures Overhead Cost Xtreme Pathfinder Total   Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 520,000 29,000    71,000    100,000     Batch setups (setups) 781,000 400    310    710   Product sustaining (number of products) 440,000 1    1    2   Other 59,000 NA    NA    NA   Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 1,800,000

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

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

Xtreme Pathfinder Total % of % of Amount Total Amount Amount Total Amount Amount Traditional Cost System Total cost assigned to products

Explanation / Answer

Smoky Montain Corp details Amt $/Hrs Estimated Mfg Overhead        1,800,000 Estimated total DLH            100,000 Estimated OH rate per DLH                 18.00 Cost of products under traditional costing Margin for Products Xtreme/unit Pathfinder/unit Total Xreme Total Pathfinder Selling Price                    115                    83           3,335,000                  5,893,000 Direct Materials                 65.10              50.00           1,887,900                  3,550,000 Direct Labor                 10.00              10.00               290,000                      710,000 Manufacturing OH                 18.00              18.00               522,000                  1,278,000 Total Cost                 93.10              78.00           2,699,900                  5,538,000 Margin                 21.90                 5.00               635,100                      355,000 Units to be produced              29,000            71,000 Activity based cost Activity Measure Activities & Maesures OH Cost Xtreme Pathfinder Total Supporting Direct Labor/DLH            520,000            29,000                 71,000                      100,000 Allocation of Supporting Direct Labor          150,800               369,200                      520,000 Batch setups/Set up nos            781,000                  400                       310                              710 Set up cost allocation          440,000               341,000                      781,000 Product sustaining(no of products)            440,000                       1                            1                                   2 Alloaction of product sustaining cost          220,000               220,000                      440,000 Total OH Allocated          810,800               930,200                  1,741,000 No of units to be produced            29,000                 71,000 OH allocation per unit              27.96                   13.10 Profit Margin as per ABC Margin for Products Xtreme/unit Pathfinder/unit Total Xreme Total Pathfinder Selling Price                    115                    83           3,335,000                  5,893,000 Direct Materials                 65.10              50.00           1,887,900                  3,550,000 Direct Labor                 10.00              10.00               290,000                      710,000 Manufacturing OH                 27.96              13.10               810,800                      930,200 Total Cost              103.06              73.10           2,988,700                  5,190,200 Margin                 11.94                 9.90               346,300                      702,800 No fo units to be produced              29,000            71,000 Total margin      346,300.00    702,800.00 Qualitatibe comparision of OH cost Allocation Xtreme Pathfinder Details Amt $ % Of Total Alloaction Amt $ % Of Total Alloaction Traditional costing            522,000              29.00           1,278,000                                 71 ABC costing            810,800                    47         930,200.00                                 53

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