Question

Nissley Wedding Fantasy Corporation makes very elaborate wedding cakes to order. The owner of the company has provided the following data concerning the activity rates in its activity-based costing system:

Activity Cost Pools		Activity Rate
Size-related	$	1.24	per guest
Complexity-related	$	28.58	per tier
Order-related	$	75.08	per order

The measure of activity for the size-related activity cost pool is the number of planned guests at the wedding reception. The greater the number of guests, the larger the cake. The measure of complexity is the number of tiers in the cake. The activity measure for the order-related cost pool is the number of orders. (Each wedding involves one order.) The activity rates include the costs of raw ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, and shortening. The activity rates do not include the costs of purchased decorations such as miniature statues and wedding bells, which are accounted for separately.

Data concerning two recent orders appear below:

	Tijerina Wedding		Twersky Wedding
Number of reception guests		49		137
Number of tiers on the cake		2		4
Cost of purchased decorations for cake	$	30.10	$	55.00

Assuming that the company charges $559.17 for the Twersky wedding cake, what would be the overall margin on the order?

Multiple Choice

• $414.28

• $219.97

• $199.89

• $144.89

Answer 1