Toxaway Company is a merchandiser that segments its business into two divisions-Commercial and Residential. The company's accounting intern was asked to prepare segmented income statements that the company's divisional managers could use to calculate their break-even points and make decisions. She took the prior month's companywide income statement and prepared the absorption format segmented income statement shown below: Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating income Total Company 5.885.000 572,300 312,700 276.000 $ 36,200 Commercial Residential $ 295,000 $ 590,000 153.400 418,900 141,600 171,100 122.000 154,000 $ 19,600 $ 17, 100 In preparing these statements, the intern determined that Toxaway's only variable selling and administrative expense is a 10% sales commission on all sales. The company's total fixed expenses include $73.500 of common fixed expenses that would continue to be incurred even if the Commercial or Residential segments are discontinued, $68,000 of fixed expenses that would disappear if the Commercial segment is dropped, and $46,000 of fixed expenses that would disappear if the Residential segment is dropped, Required: 1. Do you agree with the inter's decision to use an absorption format for her segmented income statement? 2. Based on a review of the intern's segmented income statement a. How much of the company's common fixed expenses did she allocate to the Commercial and Residential segments? b. Which of the following three allocation bases did she most likely used to allocate common fixed expenses to the Commercial and Residential segments: (a) sales. (b) cost of goods sold, or (c) gross margin? 3. Do you agree with the intern's decision to allocate the common fixed expenses to the Commercial and Residential segments? 4. Redo the intern's segmented income statement using the contribution format. 5. Compute the companywide break even point in dollar sales. 6. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the Commercial Division and for the Residential Division 7. Assume the company decided to pay its sales representatives in the Commercial and Residential Divisions a total monthly salary of $20,000 and $40,000, respectively, and to lower its companywide sales commission percentage from 10% to 5% Calculate the new break even point in dollar sales for the Commercial Division and the Residential Division Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Reg 1 Red 2A Reg 28 Reg Reg 4 Reg 5 Regs Reg2 Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Reg 1 Reg 2A Reg 28 Reg 3 Reg 4 Reg 5 Reg 6 Reg 2 Based on a review of the intern's segmented income statement, how much of the company's common fixed expenses did she allocate to the Commercial and Residential segments? Commercial Residential Common fixed expenses Redo the intern's segmented Income statement using the contribution format. Toxaway Company Income Statement Total Company Commercial Residential Sales Variable expenses: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total variable expenses Contribution margin Traceable fixed expenses Segment margin Common fixed expenses 0 $ 0 $ 0 Net operating income $ 0
