Grodt Catering Uses Activity-Based Costing for Its Overhead Costs

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Grodt Catering uses activity-based costing for its overhead costs. The company has provided the following data concerning the activity rates in its activity-based costing system:

The number of meals served is the measure of activity for the Preparing Meals activity cost pool. The number of functions catered is used as the activity measure for the Arranging Functions activity cost pool.

Management would like to know whether the company made any money on a recent function at which 60 meals were served. The company catered the function for a fixed price of $19.00 per meal. The cost of the raw ingredients for the meals was $8.60 per meal. This cost is in addition to the costs of wages, supplies, and other expenses detailed above.

For the purposes of preparing action analyses, management has assigned ease of adjustment codes to the costs as follows: wages are classified as a Yellow cost, supplies and raw ingredients as a Green cost, and other expenses as a Red cost.

-(Appendix 5A) In an action analysis report prepared for the function mentioned above,what would be the "yellow margin" in the report,rounded to the nearest whole dollar?

• A) $123.
• B) $198.
• C) $248.
• D) $303.

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Definitions:

Object Permanence

Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight.

Centration

In Piaget’s theory, the tendency of preoperational children to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.

Socioeconomic Status

A measure of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.

Deferred Imitation

Piaget’s term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it.