Construct and Interpret a Product Profitability Report, Allocating Selling and Administrative Expenses

Naper Inc. manufactures power equipment. Naper has two primary productsgenerators and air compressors. The following report was prepared by the controller for Naper's senior marketing management for the year ended December 31:

	Generators		Air Compressors			Total
Revenue	$1,468,250			$2,458,800		$3,927,050
Cost of goods sold	1,174,600			1,967,040		3,141,640
Gross profit	$293,650			$491,760		$785,410
Selling and administrative expenses						173,010
Income from operations						$612,400

The marketing management team was concerned that the selling and administrative expenses were not traced to the products. Marketing management believed that some products consumed larger amounts of selling and administrative expense than did other products. To verify this, the controller was asked to prepare a complete product profitability report, using activity-based costing.

The controller determined that selling and administrative expenses consisted of two activities: sales order processing and post-sale customer service. The controller was able to determine the activity base and activity ratefor each activity, as shown below.

Activity	Activity Base			Activity Rate
Sales order processing	Sales orders		$40	per sales order
Post-sale customer service	Service requests		$250	per customer service request

The controller determined the following activity-base usage information about each product:

	Generators		Air Compressors
Number of sales orders	400		719
Number of service requests	77		436

a. Determine the activity cost of each product for sales order processing and post-sale customer service activities.

	Sales Order Processing Activities Cost		Post-sale Customer Service Activities Cost
Generators	$		$
Air Compressors
Total	$		$

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b. Use the information in (a) to prepare a complete product profitability report dated for the year ended December 31. Calculate the gross profit to sales and the income from operations to sales percentages for each product. Round percentages to one decimal place. Enter all amounts as positive numbers.

Naper Inc.
Product Profitability Report
For the Year Ended December 31
	Generators	Air Compressors	Total
Revenues	$	$	$
Cost of goods sold
Gross profit	$	$	$
Sales order processing	$	$	$
Post-sale customer service
Total selling and administrative expense	$	$	$
Income from operations	$	$	$
Gross profit as a percentage of sales	%	%
Income from operations as a percentage of sales	%	%

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c. Interpret the product profitability report.

The air compressors have the lower income from operations to sales percentage because the product is a heavy user of Napers sales and service activities. Many factors cause the air compressors to have less income from operations as a percent of sales than generators.