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Walsh Corporation has two major business segments: Consumer and Commercial. Data for the segments and for the company for March appear below:
Sales revenues, Consumer | $ | 680,000 | |
Sales revenues, Commercial | $ | 280,000 | |
Variable expenses, Consumer | $ | 394,000 | |
Variable expenses, Commercial | $ | 143,000 | |
Traceable fixed expenses, Consumer | $ | 102,000 | |
Traceable fixed expenses, Commercial | $ | 45,000 |
In addition, common fixed expenses totaled $210,000 and were
allocated as follows: $122,000 to the Consumer business segment and
$88,000 to the Commercial business segment.
A properly constructed segmented income statement in a contribution
format would show that the segment margin of the Consumer business
segment is:
Select one:
a. $164,000
b. $184,000
c. $62,000
d. $394,000
Segment margin | ||||||
Consumer business | ||||||
sales | 680,000 | |||||
less variable expense | 394,000 | |||||
contribution margin | 286,000 | |||||
less traceable expense | 102,000 | |||||
segment margin | 184,000 | |||||
answer) | ||||||
option b | ||||||
184,000 | ||||||