QUESTION - Rocky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots-Xactive and the Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:
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Xactive
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Pathbreaker
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Selling price per unit
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$138.00
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$90.00
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Direct materials per unit
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$64.40
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$51.00
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Direct labor per unit
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$13.50
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$9.00
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Direct labor-hours per unit
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1.5 DLHs
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1.0 DLHs
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Estimated annual production and sales
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22,000 units
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73,000 units
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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:
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Estimated total manufacturing overhead
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$2,438,000
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Estimated total direct labor-hours
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106,000 DLHs
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Required:
1. Compute the product margins for the Xactive and the Pathbreaker 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):
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Estimated
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Expected Activity
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Activities and Activity Measures
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Overhead Cost
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Xactive
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Pathbreaker
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Total
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Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)
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$646,600
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33,000
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73,000
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106,000
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Batch setups (setups)
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969,000
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330
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240
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570
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Product sustaining (number of products)
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780,000
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1
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1
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2
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Other
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42,400
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NA
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NA
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NA
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Total manufacturing overhead cost
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$2,438,000
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Compute the product margins for the Xactive and the Pathbreaker products under the activity-based costing system.
3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.