Sandee Star, the owner of Star Bakery, wants to know the profitability of each of her bakery’s customer groups. She is especially interested in the State Institutions customer group, which is one of the company’s largest. Currently, the bakery is selling doughnuts and snack foods to ten state institutions in three states. The controller has prepared the following income statement for the State Institutions customer group:The controller has also provided budgeted information about selling and administrative activities for the State Institutions customer group. For this year, the planned activity cost rates and the annual cost driver levels for each selling and administrative activity are as follows:You have been called in as a consultant on the State Institutions customer group. 1. Calculate the planned activity cost for each activity.2. Calculate the differences between the planned activity cost and the State Institutions customer group’s activity costs for this year. 3. From your evaluation of the differences calculated in 2 and your review of the income statement, identify the non-value-adding activities and state which selling and administrative activities should be examined.4. What actions might the company take to reduce the costs of non-value-adding selling and administrative activities?View Solution:Sandee Star the owner of Star Bakery wants to know