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 Company Commercial Residenti 885,000 295,000 590,000 572,300153,400 418,900 171,100 312,700 141,600 Selling and administrative expenses276,000 122,000 154,000 36.70019,600 17100 Net operating income 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 be avoided if the Commericial segment is dropped, and $46,000 of fixed expenses that would be avoided if the Residential segment is dropped Required: 1. Do you agree with the intern'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