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	$	920,000	$	267,000	$	400,000	$	253,000
Variable expenses		466,000		119,000		190,000		157,000
Contribution margin		454,000		148,000		210,000		96,000
Fixed expenses:
Depreciation		69,500		8,100		40,700		20,700
Liability insurance		44,400		20,900		7,500		16,000
Program administrators salaries		113,400		40,200		38,200		35,000
General administrative overhead*		184,000		53,400		80,000		50,600
Total fixed expenses		411,300		122,600		166,400		122,300
Net operating income (loss)	$	42,700	$	25,400	$	43,600	$	(26,300)

*Allocated on the basis of program revenues.

The head administrator of Jackson County Senior Services, Judith Miyama, considers last years net operating income of $42,700 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?