Cumberland County Senior Services is a non-profit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Cumberland County area. Three services are provided for seniors-home nursing, Meals on Wheels, and housekeeping. In the home nursing program, nurses visit seniors on a regular basis to check on their general health and to perform tests ordered by their physicians. The Meals on Wheels program delivers a hot meal once a day to each senior enrolled in the program. The housekeeping service provides weekly housecleaning and maintenance services. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow: Total $909,000 495,700 413,300 Home Nursing $262,600 121,400 141,200 Meals on Wheels $404,000 212,500 191,500 House- keeping $242,400 161,800 80,600 Revenues Variable expenses Contribution margin Fixed expenses: Depreciation Liability insurance Program administrators' salaries General administrative overhead* Total fixed expenses Operating income (loss) 68,380 42,370 115,650 181,800 408,200 $ 5,100 8,080 20,150 40, 250 52,520 121,000 $ 20,200 40,150 7,100 38,150 80,800 166,200 $ 25,300 20,150 15,120 37,250 48,480 121,000 $(40,400) *Allocated on the basis of program revenues. The head administrator of Cumberland County Senior Services, Judith Ewa, is concerned about the organization's finances and considers the operating income of $5,100 last year to be razor-thin. (Last year's results were very similar to the results for previous years and are representative of what would be expected in the future. She feels that the organization should be building its financial reserves at a more rapid rate in order to prepare for the next inevitable recession. After seeing the above report, Ewa asked for more information about the financial advisability of discontinuing the housekeeping program. Required: 1-a. Compute the change in net operating income for the company as a whole if housekeeping program be discontinued. in net operating income by Decrease Increases 1-b. Should the housekeeping program be discontinued? Yes 2. Would a segmented income statement format be more useful to management in assessing the long-run financial viability of the various services? O Yes