Hello, I need help with calculating Marketing, Sales and Commissions expense for each month of 3d quarter. Here is the scenario. The Company ABC has contracted with a media company to handle all marketing materials and advertising. Their budget for the first year is $2,500,000. The company also has contracted with an advertisement sales company that is responsible for booking the advertisements. Their budget for the first year is $2,000,000. The Company ABC has allowed for a 15% commission to be paid to the advertiser in the form of a discount or in some cases paid to their ad agency of record. I need to calculate the Marketing, Sales and Commissions expense for each month for the 3d quarter. I calculated this by $6,957,000/3 months=2,319,000 per month which is incorrect. I believe there is a problem with the amount of $5,382,000 (the commission for the 3d quarter) and the amount $6,957,000 is incorrect. There is a table below: Please tell me how the 15% commission was calculated in the table and where is the mistake in the calculations. The amount of $6,957,000 is incorrect because the total amount is $23,454,000. The total amount is correct. Thank you!!!

Quarter	Markt & Advert.	Booking Advert.	15% Commission	Total
1st	$625,000	$500,000	$1,458,000	$2,583,000
2d	$625,000	$500,000	3,645,000	4,777,000
3d	$625,000	$500,000	5,832,000	6,957,000
4th	$625,000	$500,000	8,019,000	9,144,000
	2,500,000	2,000,000	18,954,000	23,454,000