Analyzing Segment Reports World Products Corporation has subsidiaries or major operating divisions in more than 30 countries. Each of its operating units produces one of three major product lines, and sales are made exclusively from the products produced by the World Products Corporation network. World Products disclosed the information (shown below) relating to operations in different geographic regions in its 2000 consolidated financial statements.

a. Compute the amounts to be reported in the 2000 consolidated income statement for World Products. Assume that cost of goods sold for a particular region is a constant percentage of sales.

b. What additional disaggregated information would World Products be expected to include with its financial statements? Explain how this information might be useful.

c. What difficulties might be associated with arriving at the amounts reported for each of the geographic areas?

d. If World Products Corporation were planning additional expansion, where would you recommend the expansion take place? Why?