Lauderdale Corporation is organized in three geographical divisions (regions) with managers responsible for revenues, costs, and assets in their respective regions. The firm is highly decentralized and managers are evaluated solely on divisional performance. Corporate overhead (all fixed) is allocated to the regions based on regional gross margin (regional revenue minus regional cost of sales).

The following information is from Lauderdale's first year of operations:

	Region I	Region II	Region III	Total Corporation
Revenues	$ 1,202,000	$ 1,652,000	$ 2,252,000	$ 5,106,000
Cost of sales	451,000	811,000	1,141,000	2,403,000
Selling, General and Administrative (all fixed)	423,000	633,000	853,000	1,909,000
Corporate overhead				436,000

Information on the division assets in the three regions of Lauderdale Corporation follows:

Region I	$ 702,000
Region II	632,000
Region III	1,290,500

Lauderdale Corporation has a cost of capital of 8.6 percent.

Required:

1. Compute residual income for the three regions. Ignore taxes.

2. How have these regions performed?