Vega Foods Inc. recently purchased a small mill that it intends to operate as one of its subsidiaries. The newly acquired mill offers three products for sale-wheat cereal, pancake mix, and flour. Each product sells for $10 per package. Materials, labour, and other variable production costs are $3.00 per bag of wheat cereal, $4.20 per bag of pancake mix, and $1.80 per bag of flour. Sales commissions are 10% of sales for any product. All other costs are fixed. The mill's income statement for the most recent month is given below: Sales Expenses: Materials, labour, and other Sales commissions Advertising Salaries Equipment depreciation Warehouse rent Selling and administrative Total expenses Operating income (loss) Product Line Total Wheat Company Cereal $600,000 $200,000 204,000 60,000 60,000 20,000 123,000 48,000 66,000 34,000 21,000 30,000 10,000 15,000 12,000 4,000 6,000 30,000 30,000 90,000 585,000 206,000 288,000 $ 15,000 $ (6,000) $ 12,000 $ 9,000 Tabal Pancake Mix $300,000 Whant 126,000 30,000 60,000

Vega Foods inc recently purchased a small mill that it intends to operate as one of its subsidiaries. The newhy acquired mill offers three products for sale-wheat cereal, pancake mix, and flour, Each product sells for $10 per package. Materials, labour, and other variable production costs are $3.00 per bag of wheat cereal, $4.20 per bag of pancake mix, and $1.80 per bag of flour. Sales commissions are 10% of sales for any product. All other costs are floced The mills income statement for the most recent month is given below: The following additional information about the company is avallable: 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 fiour. b. All three products are stored in the same warehouse. In the above income statement, the warehouse rent has been aliocated on the basis of sales dollars. The warehouse contains 24,000 square metres of space, of which 8,000 square metres are used for wheat cereal, 14,000 square metres are used for pancoke mix, and 2,000 square metres are used for flour. The warehouse space costs the company $0.50 per square metre to rent. c. The Selling and administrative 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. Management at vega Foods is anxious to improve the mill's 2.5% margin on sales. Pequired: Prepare a new contribution format segmented income statement for the month. Adjust the allocations as required