Studemeir Paint & Floors (SPF) has experienced net operating losses in its Other Flooring Products...
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Studemeir Paint & Floors (SPF) has experienced net operating losses in its Other Flooring Products line during the last few periods. SPFs management team thinks that the store will improve its profitability if it discontinues the Other Flooring Products line. The operating results from the most recent period are:
Paint and Paint Supplies
Carpet
Other Flooring Products
Sales
$
431,400
$
261,000
$
196,000
Cost of goods sold
132,000
155,000
161,000
SPF estimates that store support expenses are approximately 25% of revenues.
Harish Rana, SPFs controller, states that while every sale has one purchase order, not every sales dollar requires or uses the same amount of store support activities. He conducts a preliminary investigation and his results and analysis are as follows:
Activity (cost driver)
Paint and Paint Supplies
Carpet
Other Flooring Products
Order processing (number of purchase orders)
490
210
120
Receiving (number of deliveries)
37
190
57
Customer support (hours required per sale)
0.40
6.0
0.80
Harish estimates activity-cost rates for each activity as follows:
Order processing
$
150
per purchase order
Receiving
185
per delivery
Customer support
30
per hour
Required:
1. Prepare a product-line profitability report for SPF under the current costing system.
2. Prepare a product-line profitability report for SPF using the ABC information the controller provides.
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Required 2
Prepare a product-line profitability report for SPF under the current costing system. (Loss amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round operating margin (loss) to 2 decimal places (i.e. 0.2134 should be entered as 21.34%).)
Paint & Paint Supplies
Carpet
Other Flooring Products
Operating income (loss)
Operating margin (loss)
%
%
%
Paint & Paint Supplies
Carpet
Other Flooring Products
Store support:
Total store support
Operating income (loss)
Operating margin (loss)
%
%
%
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