Streeterville Foods, Inc., has recently purchased a small mill that it intends to operate as one of its subsidiaries. The newly acquired mill has three products that it offers for sale-wheat cereal, pancake mix, and flour. Each product sells for $10 per package. Materials, labor, and other variable production costs are $3.50 per bag of wheat cereal, $4.70 per bag of pancake mix, and $2.30 per bag of flour. Sales commissions are 10% of sales for any product. Al other costs are fixed. The mill's income statement for the most recent month is given below: Product Line Total Wheat Pancake Company Cereal Mix Flour $750,000 $250,000 $350,000 $150,000 Sales Expenses Materials, labor, and other 286,500 Sales commissions 75,000 Advertising 145,500 Salaries 84,000 Equipment depreciation 37,500 Warehouse rent 15,000 General administration 84.000 87,500 164,500 25,000 35,000 60,500 62,500 39,000 21,500 12.500 17.500 5,000 7,000 28,000 28,000 34,500 15,000 22.500 23,500 7.500 3,000 28,000 Total expenses 727,500 257.500 336,000 134.000 Net operating income (loss) $ 22,500 $ (7,500) $ 14,000 $ 16,000 The following additional information is available about the company a. The same equipment is used to mill and package all three products. In the above income statement, equipment depreciation has been allocated on the basis of sales dollars. An analysis of equipment usage indicates that it is used 40% of the time to make wheat cereal. 50% of the time to make pancake mix, and 10% of the time to make flour. b.All three products are stored in the same warehouse. In the above income statement, the warehouse rent has been allocated on the basis of sales dollars. The warehouse contains 30,000 square feet of space, of which 8,000 square feet are used for wheat cereal, 14.000 square feet are used for pancake mix, and 8,000 square feet are used for flour. The warehouse space costs the company $0.50 per square foot per month to rent. c. The general administration costs relate to the administration of the company as a whole. In the above income statement, these costs have been divided equally among the three product lines d. All other costs are traceable to the product lines. Streeterville Foods' management is anxious to improve the mill's 3.00% margin on sales. Required: 1. Prepare a new contribution format segmented income statement for the month. Adjust the allocation of equipment depreciation and warehouse rent as indicated by the additional information provided. (Round your final answers to the nearest dollar amount.) Total Company Wheat Cereal Pancake Mix Flour Variable expenses: Total variable expenses Traceable fixed expenses: Total traceable fixed expenses Common fixed expenses: 2. After seeing the income statement in the main body of the problem, management has decided to eliminate the wheat cereal because it is not returning a profit, and to focus all available resources on promoting the pancake mix. Based on the statement you have prepared, do you agree with the decision to eliminate the wheat cereal? Yes No
