ONeil Enterprises produces a line of canned soups for sale at supermarkets across the country. Demand has been soft recently and the company is operating at 80 percent of capacity. The company is considering dropping one of the soups, beef barley, in hopes of improving profitability. If beef barley is dropped, the revenue associated with it will be lost and the related variable costs saved. The CFO estimates that the fixed costs will also be reduced by 25 percent.

The following product line statements are available.

Product	Broth				Beef Barley				Minestrone
Sales	$	32,900			$	43,100			$	51,500
Variable costs		22,100				38,800				40,300
Contribution margin	$	10,800			$	4,300			$	11,200
Fixed costs allocated to each product line		4,900				6,200				7,300
Operating profit (loss)	$	5,900			$	(1,900)			$	3,900

Required:

a-1. Complete the following differential cost schedule.

a-2. From an operating profit perspective, should O'Neil drop the beef barley line?

b. When the product manager for the minestrone soup hears that managers are considering dropping the beef barley line, she points out that many ONeil customers buy more than one soup flavor and if beef barley is not available from ONeil, some of them might stop buying the other soups as well. She estimates that 10 percent of the current sales of both broth and minestrone will be lost if beef barley is dropped.

b-1. Complete the following differential cost schedule.

b-2. Based on the estimate from the project manager, should O'Neil drop the beef barley line?