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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

$

138.00

$

90.00

Direct materials per unit

$

64.40

$

51.00

Direct labor per unit

$

13.50

$

9.00

Direct labor-hours per unit

1.5

DLHs

1.0

DLHs

Estimated annual production and sales

22,000

units

73,000

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

$

2,438,000

Estimated total direct labor-hours

106,000

DLHs


Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company’s traditional costing system. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

Xtreme

Pathfinder

Total

Product margin

$0

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

Activity

Activities and Activity Measures

Overhead Cost

Xtreme

Pathfinder

Total

Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)

$

646,600

33,000

73,000

106,000

Batch setups (setups)

969,000

330

240

570

Product sustaining (number of products)

780,000

1

1

2

Other

42,400

NA

NA

NA

Total manufacturing overhead cost

$

2,438,000


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

Xtreme

Pathfinder

Total

Product margin

$0

Xtreme

Pathfinder

Selling price per unit

$

138.00

$

90.00

Direct materials per unit

$

64.40

$

51.00

Direct labor per unit

$

13.50

$

9.00

Direct labor-hours per unit

1.5

DLHs

1.0

DLHs

Estimated annual production and sales

22,000

units

73,000

units

Explanation / Answer

1) overhead rate estimated MOH/estimated DLH's 2438000/106000 23 product margin Xtreme pathfinder total Selling price per unit 138 90 less:Expense Direct materials per unit 64.4 51 Direct labor per unit 13.5 9 overhead pu (oh rate*DLH's pu) 34.5 23 total unit cost 112.4 83 product margin 25.6 7 32.6 answer 2) overhead rate oh rate amount driver Activity Supporting direct labor 646,600 106,000 6.1 batch setups 969,000 570 1700 product sustaining 780,000 2 390000 allocation of overhead and per unit cost Xtremet Pathfinder Rate driver OH Rate Driver OH Activity Supporting direct labor 6.1 33,000 201300 6.1 73,000 445300 batch setups 1700 330 561000 1700 240 408000 product sustaining 390000 1 390000 390000 1 390000 total overhead 1152300 1243300 total production 22,000 73,000 overhead per unit 52.38 17.03 product margin Xtreme pathfinder total Selling price per unit 138 90 less:Expense Direct materials per unit 64.4 51 Direct labor per unit 13.5 9 overhead pu (oh rate*DLH's pu) 52.38 17.03 total unit cost 130.28 77.03 product margin 7.72 12.97 20.69 answer

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