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Diversified Products, Inc., has recently acquired a small publishing company that offers three books for sale—a...

Diversified Products, Inc., has recently acquired a small publishing company that offers three books for sale—a cookbook, a travel guide, and a handy speller. Each book sells for $13. The publishing company’s most recent monthly income statement is shown below.

Product line

Total
Company
Cookbook Travel
Guide
Handy
Speller
Sales $ 315,000 $ 96,000 $ 156,000 $ 63,000
Expenses:
Printing costs 105,000 30,000 63,300 11,700
Advertising 39,000 13,800 21,000 4,200
General sales 18,900 5,760 9,360 3,780
Salaries 36,000 21,000 9,300 5,700
Equipment depreciation 6,600 2,200 2,200 2,200
Sales commissions 31,500 9,600 15,600 6,300
General administration 42,900 14,300 14,300 14,300
Warehouse rent 12,600 3,840 6,240 2,520
Depreciation—office facilities 3,900 1,300 1,300 1,300
Total expenses 296,400 101,800 142,600 52,000
Net operating income (loss) $ 18,600 $ (5,800 ) $ 13,400 $ 11,000

The following additional information is available:

  1. Only printing costs and sales commissions are variable; all other costs are fixed. The printing costs (which include materials, labor, and variable overhead) are traceable to the three product lines as shown in the income statement above. Sales commissions are 10% of sales.

  2. The same equipment is used to produce all three books, so the equipment depreciation cost has been allocated equally among the three product lines. An analysis of the company’s activities indicates that the equipment is used 30% of the time to produce cookbooks, 50% of the time to produce travel guides, and 20% of the time to produce handy spellers.

  3. The warehouse is used to store finished units of product, so the rental cost has been allocated to the product lines on the basis of sales dollars. The warehouse rental cost is $3 per square foot per year. The warehouse contains 50,400 square feet of space, of which 7,800 square feet is used by the cookbook line, 24,600 square feet by the travel guide line, and 18,000 square feet by the handy speller line.

  4. The general sales cost above includes the salary of the sales manager and other sales costs not traceable to any specific product line. This cost has been allocated to the product lines on the basis of sales dollars.

  5. The general administration cost and depreciation of office facilities both relate to administration of the company as a whole. These costs have been allocated equally to the three product lines.

  6. All other costs are traceable to the three product lines in the amounts shown on the income statement above.

The management of Diversified Products, Inc., is anxious to improve the publishing company’s 6% return on sales.

Required:

1. Prepare a new contribution format segmented income statement for the month. Adjust allocations of equipment depreciation and of warehouse rent as indicated by the additional information provided.

2. Based on the segmented income statements given in the problem, management plans to eliminate the cookbook because it is not returning a profit, and to focus all available resources on promoting the travel guide. However, based on the new contribution format segmented income statement that you prepared:

a. Do you agree with management's plan to eliminate the cookbook?

b-1. Compute the contribution margin ratio for each product.

b-2. Based on the statement you have prepared, do you agree with the decision to focus all available resources on promoting the travel guide?

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Segmented Income Statement
Total Company Cookbook Travel Guide Handy Speller
Sales 315,000 96,000 156,000 63,000
Less: Variable expenses
Printing costs 105,000 30,000 63,300 11,700
Sales Commissions 31,500 9,600 15,600 6,300
Contribution Margin 178,500 56,400 77,100 45,000
Lesse: Fixed costs
Advertising 39,000 13,800 21,000 4,200
Equipment Depreciation 6,600 1,980 3,300 1,320
Warehouse Rent 12,600 1,950 6,150 4,500
Total traceable fixed expenses 58,200 17,730 30,450 10,020
Segment Margin 120,300 38,670 46,650 34,980
Fixed expenses not traceable
General Sales 18,900
Salaries 36,000
General Administration 42,900
Depreciation-Office facilities 3,900
Net operating income 18,600
2a. No, as it is generating a segment margin of $38,670
Total Company Cookbook Travel Guide Handy Speller
b-1 CM Ratio = CM/Sales 56.67% 58.75% 49.42% 71.43%
b-2 No, since the contribution margin ratio is lowest for travel guide

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