The Sports Equipment Division of Brandon McCarthy Company is operated as a profit center. Sales for the
Question:
The Sports Equipment Division of Brandon McCarthy Company is operated as a profit center. Sales for the division were budgeted for 2010 at $900,000. The only variable costs budgeted for the division were cost of goods sold ($440,000) and selling and administrative ($60,000). Fixed costs were budgeted at $100,000 for cost of goods sold, $90,000 for selling and administrative and $70,000 for noncontrollable fixed costs. Actual results for these items were:
Sales .................$880,000
Cost of goods sold
Variable ................ 409,000
Fixed ................105,000
Selling and administrative
Variable .................61,000
Fixed ..................67,000
Noncontrollable fixed ...........80,000
Instructions
(a) Prepare a responsibility report for the Sports Equipment Division for 2010.
(b) Assume, instead, the division is an investment center, and average operating assets were $1,000,000. Compute ROI.
Step by Step Answer:
Accounting Principles
ISBN: 978-0470533475
9th Edition
Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso