In: Accounting
(9-43) Responsibility Accounting, Profit Centers, and Contribution Approach
Bloomington Honda had the following data for the year’s operations:
Sales of vehicles
$ 2,400,000
Sales of parts and service
600,000
Cost of vehicle sales
1,920,000
Parts and service materials
180,000
Parts and service labor
240,000
Parts and service overhead
60,000
General dealership overhead
200,000
Advertising of vehicles
120,000
Sales commissions, vehicles
48,000
Sales salaries, vehicles
60,000
The president of dealership has long regarded the markup on material and labor for the parts
and service activity as the amount that is supposed to cover all parts and service overhead
plus some general overhead of the dealership. In other words, the parts and service
department is viewed as a cost-recovery operation, while the sales of vehicles is viewed as the
income-producing activity.
(1) Prepare a departmentalized operating statement that harmonizes with the views of the
president.
(2) Prepare an alternative operating statement that would reflect a different view of the
dealership operations. Assume that $24,000 and $120,000 of the $200,000 general
overhead can be allocated with confidence to the parts and service department and to
sales of vehicles, respectively. The remaining $56,000 cannot be allocated except in some
highly arbitrary manner.
(3) Comment on the relative merits of numbers 1 and 2.
1). The below is the departmental operating statement of bloomington:
$ | Total | Unallocated | Sale of vehicles | Parts and service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Revenues | 3000000 | - | 2400000 | 600000 |
Cost of Sales | 1920000 | 1920000 | - | |
Cost of Material | 180000 | - | 180000 | |
Cost of Labor | 240000 | - | - | 240000 |
Overheads | 60000 | - | - | 60000 |
Advertising | 120000 | - | 120000 | - |
Sales Commission | 48000 | - | 48000 | - |
Salary | 60000 | - | 60000 | - |
Total cost | 2628000 | - | 2148000 | 480000 |
Gross profit | 372000 | - | 252000 | 120000 |
General overhead (Since General, not allocated to any department) | 200000 | 200000 | - | - |
Net profit | 172000 | - | 252000 | 120000 |
2). The below is the alternative departmental operating statement of bloomington:
3. The operating statement in case 1 assume that the general overheads can not be distributed to department and hence the profitability is calculated. In case, the operating statement present more realistic picture as the general overheads of dealership are distributed on both department and some portion is kept as non alllocable.