Music Teachers, Inc., is an educational association for music teachers that has $20,000$ members. The association operates from a central headquarters but has local membership chapters throughout the United States. Monthly meetings are held by the local chapters to discuss recent developments on topics of interest to music teachers. The association's journal, Teachers' Forum, is issued monthly with features about recent developments in the field. The association publishes books and reports and also sponsors professional courses that qualify for continuing professional education credit. The association's statement of revenues and expenses for the current year is presented below.

Revenues $$3,374,000$

Expenses:

Salaries $990,000$

Personnel costs $247,500$

Occupancy costs $228,000$

Reimbursement of member costs to local chapters. $540,000$

Other membership services $520,000$

Printing and paper $347,000$

Postage and shipping $168,000$

Instructors' fees $78,000$

General and administrative $36,000$

Total expenses $3,154,500$

Excess of revenues over expenses $.$ $ $219,500$

The board of directors of Music Teachers, Inc., has requested that a segmented income statement be prepared showing the contribution of each profit center to the association. The association has four profit centers: Membership Division. Magazine Subscriptions Division. Books and Reports Division, and Continuing Education Division. Mike Doyle has been assigned responsibility for preparing the segmented income statement, and he has gathered the following data prior to its preparation.

a$.$ The $20,100$ members of the association pay dues. Membership dues are $$100$ per year, of which $$20$ is considered to cover a one$-$year subscription to the association's journal. Other benefits include membership in the association and chapter affiliation. The portion of the dues covering the magazine subscription $($$$20)$ should be assigned to the Magazine Subscription Division.

b$.$ One$-$year subscriptions to Teachers' Forum were sold to nonmembers and libraries at $$34$ per subscription. A total of $3,500$ of these subscriptions were sold last year. In addition to subscriptions, the magazine generated $$115,000$ in advertising revenues. The costs per magazine subscription were $$8$ for printing and paper and $$4$ for postage and shipping.

c$.$ A total of $28,000$ technical reports and professional texts were sold by the Books and Reports Division at an average unit selling price of $$25.$ Average costs per publication were $$4$ for printing and paper and $$2$ for postage and shipping.

d$.$ The association offers a variety of continuing education courses to both members and nonmembers. The one$-$day courses had a tuition cost of $$75$ each and were attended by $2,400$ students. A total of $1,8400$ students took two$-$day courses at a tuition cost of $$125$ for each student. Outside instructors were paid to teach some courses.

e$.$ Salary costs and space occupied by division follow:

Salaries Space Occupied

$($square feet$)$

Membership $$227,0003,000$

Magazine Subscriptions $156,0001,000$

Books and Reports $324,0001,000$

Continuing Education $190,0002,000$

Corporate staff $93,0003,000$

Total $$990,00010,000$

Personnel costs are $25\%$ of salaries in the separate divisions as well as for the corporate staff. The $$228,000$ in occupancy costs includes $$55,000$ in rental cost for a warehouse used by the Books and Reports Division for storage purposes.

f$.$ Printing and paper costs other than for magazine subscriptions and for books and reports relate to the Continuing Education Division.

g$.$ General and administrative expenses include costs relating to overall administration of the association as a whole. The company's corporate staff does some mailing of materials for general administrative purposes. The expenses that can be traced or assigned to the corporate staff, as well as any other expenses that are not traceable to the profit centers, will be treated as common costs. It is not necessary to distinguish between variable and fixed costs.

Required:

$1.$ Prepare a contribution format segmented income statement for Music Teachers. Inc. This statement should show the segment margin for each division as well as results for the association as a whole.

$2.$ Give arguments for and against allocating all costs of the association to the four divisions

Case $6-30(75$ minutes$)-$ FORMAT

$1.$ See the segmented statement on the second following page. Supporting computations for the statement are given below:

Sales:

Membership dues $($ x $ $).........................$

Assigned to Magazine Subscriptions Division

$($ x $ $)...................................................$

Assigned to Membership Division..............................

Non$-$member magazine subscriptions $($ x $ $).$

Reports and texts $($ x $ $)...........................$

Continuing education courses:

One$-$day $($ x $ $).......................................$

Two$-$day $($ x $ $).......................................$

Total revenue..........................................................