Required: 1. Prepare quarterly income statements showing income from operations for the three regions. Use three column headings: North, South, and West. Do not round your interim calculations. Thomas Railroad Company Divisional Income Statements For the Quarter Ended December 31 Revenues Operating expenses Income from operations before service department charges Less service department charges: Dispatching Equipment Management Total service department charges Income from operations North South West 2. What is the profit margin of each division? Round to one decimal place. Profit Margin Region North Region South Region West Region Identify the most successful region according to the profit margin. 3. What would you include in a recommendation to the CEO for a better method for evaluating the performance of the divisions? a. The method used to evaluate the performance of the divisions should be reevaluated. b. A better divisional performance measure would be the rate of return on investment (income from operations divided by divisional assets). c. A better divisional performance measure would be the residual income (income from operations less a minimal return on divisional assets). d. None of these choices would be included. e. All of these choices (a, b & c) would be included. Previous Next

Using the data below for the Ace Guitar Company:     A Region   B Region   Sales $521,500   $968,500   Cost of goods sold 198,200   368,000   Selling expenses 125,200   232,400   Service department expenses         Purchasing       $250,300 Payroll accounting       166,900   Allocate service department expenses proportional to the sales of each region. Determine the divisional income from operations for the A and B regions. For interim calculations, round percentages to one decimal place. A Region $ B Region $

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Effect of Proposals on Divisional Performance A condensed income statement for the Electronics Division of Gihbli Industries Inc. for the year ended December 31 is as follows: Sales $4,160,000 Cost of goods sold 2,884,200 Gross profit $ 1,275,800 Operating expenses 735,000 Income from operations $ 540,800 Invested assets $3,200,000 Assume that the Electronics Division received no charges from service departments. The president of Gihbli Industries Inc. has indicated that the division’s return on a $3,200,000 investment must be increased to at least 20.8% by the end of the next year if operations are to continue. The division manager is considering the following three proposals: Proposal 1: Transfer equipment with a book value of $640,000 to other divisions at no gain or loss and lease similar equipment. The annual lease payments would be less than the amount of depreciation expense on the old equipment by $115,200. This decrease in expense would be included as part of…

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Divisional income statements with support department allocations Horton Technology has two divisions. Consumer and Commercial and two corporate support departments, Tech Services and Purchasing. The corporate expenses for the year ended December 31, 20Y7, are as follows: ACCT 102 Chapter 24 - Homework assignment take frame Teen Services Department 2770,000 292,000 Purchasing Department Other corporate administrative expenses Total expense The other corporate administrative expenses include officers' salaries and other expenses required by the corporation. The Tech Services Department allocates costs to the divisions based on the number of computers in the department, and the Purchasing Department allocates costs to the divisions based on the number of purchase orders for each department. The services used by the two divisions are as follows: Consumer Division Commercial Division Total Tech Services $1,519,500 260 410 computers 670 457,000 Purchasing 5,100 purchase orders 1,322,900…

Using the data below for the Ace Guitar Company:   A Region     B Region     Sales $500,000     $900,000     Cost of goods sold 200,000     300,000     Selling expenses 150,000     275,000                   Support department expenses:                    Purchasing           $90,000        Payroll accounting           30,000   Allocate support department expenses proportional to the sales of each region. Determine the divisional operating income for the A and B regions. For interim calculations, round percentages to one decimal place and all other amounts to the nearest whole dollar. A Region Operating Income $fill in the blank 1 B Region Operating Income $fill in the blank 2

Severo S.A. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is organized into two divisions. The company's contribution format segmented income statement (in terms of the Brazilian currency, the real, R) for last month is given below: Sales Variable expenses Contribution margin Traceable fixed expenses: Advertising Selling and administrative Depreciation Total traceable fixed expenses Divisional segment margin Common fixed expenses Operating income Sales Traceable fixed expenses: Total Company R 3,675,000 1,745,500 1,929,500 Traceable fixed expenses: R Advertising Selling and administrative Depreciation Variable expenses as a percentage of sales Total traceable fixed expenses 634,000 449,000 233,000 1,316,000 Common fixed expenses: Top management can't understand why the Leather Division has such a low segment margin when its sales are only 25% less than sales in the Cloth Division. As one step in isolating the problem, management has directed that the Leather Division be further segmented into product lines.…

Comparative data on three companies in the same service industry are given below:   Required: 2. Fill in the missing information. (Round the "Turnover" and "ROI" answers to 2 decimal places.)   A B C Sales $5,267,000 $1,630,000   Net Operaring Income $737,380 $260,800   Average operating assets $2,290,000   $2,570,000 Margin     6% Turnover     1.60 Return on Investment (ROI)   8%