Part A

Cervetti Corporation has two major business segments-East and West. In July, the East business segment had sales revenues of $350,000, variable expenses of $190,000, and traceable fixed expenses of $42,000. During the same month, the West business segment had sales revenues of $1,020,000, variable expenses of $524,000, and traceable fixed expenses of $195,000. The common fixed expenses totaled $298,000 and were allocated as follows: $149,000 to the East business segment and $149,000 to the West business segment.

The contribution margin of the West business segment is:

	$496,000
	$(35,000)
	$669,000
	$118,000

Part B

A soft drink bottler incurred the following factory utility cost: $3,561 for 800 cases bottled and $3,658 for 1,200 cases bottled. Factory utility cost is a mixed cost containing both fixed and variable components. The variable factory utility cost per case bottled is closest to:

	$4.45
	$0.24
	$3.05
	$2.97

Part C

Nikkel Corporation, a merchandising company, reported the following results for July:

Sales	$427,000
Cost of goods sold (all variable)	$173,400
Total variable selling expense	$21,200
Total fixed selling expense	$18,900
Total variable administrative expense	$9,600
Total fixed administrative expense	$36,300

The gross margin for July is:

	$222,800
	$371,800
	$253,600
	$167,600

Part D

Lasseter Corporation has provided its contribution format income statement for August. The company produces and sells a single product.

Sales (4,100 units)	$	127,100
Variable expenses		53,300
Contribution margin		73,800
Fixed expenses		44,200
Net operating income	$	29,600

If the company sells 4,200 units, its total contribution margin should be closest to:

	$30,322
	$73,800
	$75,600
	$76,900

Part E

Umanzor Corporation uses activity-based costing to assign overhead costs to products. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools as follows: Processing, $46,000; Supervising, $30,500; and Other, $26,500. Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data appear below:

	MHs (Processing)	Batches (supervising)
Product S5	14,800	1,070
Product F5	820	1,040
Total	15,620	2,110

The activity rate for the Processing activity cost pool under activity-based costing is closest to:

	$2.62 per MH
	$3.24 per MH
	$7.37 per MH
	$2.94 per MH

Part F

Zeeb Corporation produces and sells a single product. Data concerning that product appear below:

	Per Unit		Percent of Sales
Selling price	$	200	100%
Variable expenses		50	25%
Contribution margin	$	150	75%

Fixed expenses are $342,000 per month. The company is currently selling 3,700 units per month.

The marketing manager believes that a $11,000 increase in the monthly advertising budget would result in a 100 unit increase in monthly sales.

Required:

What should be the overall effect on the company's monthly net operating income of this change? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Change in net operating income

$

Part G

Puchalla Corporation sells a product for $340 per unit. The product's current sales are 14,500 units and its break-even sales are 11,745 units. The margin of safety as a percentage of sales is closest to:

	19%
	81%
	77%
	23%

Lastly part H

The controller of Ferrence Company estimates the amount of materials handling overhead cost that should be allocated to the company's two products using the data that are given below:

	Wall Mirrors	Specialty Windows
Total expected units produced	7,000	1,400
Total expected material moves	700	1,300
Expected direct labor-hours per unit	11	10

The total materials handling cost for the year is expected to be $17,107.80.

If the materials handling cost is allocated on the basis of direct labor-hours, the total materials handling cost allocated to the Wall Mirrors is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places.)

	$14,476
	$7,666
	$9,315
	$12,643