Xactive Pathbreaker Selling price per unit $ 127.00 $ 89.00 Direct materials per unit $ 64.80 $ 51.00 Direct labor per unit $ 18.20 $ 13.00 Direct labor-hours per unit 1.4 DLHs 1.0 DLHs Estimated...

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 Xactive and the Pathbreaker products under the company's traditional costing system.
(Negative product margins should be indicated with a minus sign.)

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 Xactive and the Pathbreaker 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.)

Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.
(
Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answers to one decimal place.)