Jackson County Senior Services is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing essential services to seniors who live in their own homes within the Jackson County area. Three services are provided for seniorshome nursing, Meals On Wheels, and housekeeping. Data on revenue and expenses for the past year follow:

		Total		Home Nursing		Meals On Wheels		House- keeping
Revenues	$	923,000	$	267,000	$	406,000	$	250,000
Variable expenses		457,000		113,000		190,000		154,000
Contribution margin		466,000		154,000		216,000		96,000
Fixed expenses:
Depreciation		70,400		8,600		40,900		20,900
Liability insurance		43,500		20,400		7,300		15,800
Program administrators salaries		115,700		41,000		38,300		36,400
General administrative overhead*		184,600		53,400		81,200		50,000
Total fixed expenses		414,200		123,400		167,700		123,100
Net operating income (loss)	$	51,800	$	30,600	$	48,300	$	(27,100)

*Allocated on the basis of program revenues.

The head administrator of Jackson County Senior Services, Judith Miyama, considers last years net operating income of $51,800 to be unsatisfactory; therefore, she is considering the possibility of discontinuing the housekeeping program.

The depreciation in housekeeping is for a small van that is used to carry the housekeepers and their equipment from job to job. If the program were discontinued, the van would be donated to a charitable organization. None of the general administrative overhead would be avoided if the housekeeping program were dropped, but the liability insurance and the salary of the program administrator would be avoided.

Required:

1-a. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of discontinuing the Housekeeping program?

1-b. Should the Housekeeping program be discontinued?

2-a. Prepare a properly formatted segmented income statement.

2-b. Would a segmented income statement format be more useful to management in assessing the long-run financial viability of the various services?