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Segmented Income Statement: International OperationsPacific Rim Industries is a diversifie...

Segmented Income Statement: International Operations

Pacific Rim Industries is a diversified company whose products are marketed both domestically and internationally. The company's major product lines are furniture, sports equipment, and household appliances. At a recent meeting of Pacific Rim's board of directors, there was a lengthy discussion on ways to improve overall corporate profitability. The members of the board decided that they required additional financial information about individual corporate operations in order to target areas for improvement.

Danielle Murphy, the controller, has been asked to provide additional data that would assist the board in its investigation. Murphy believes that income statements, prepared along both product lines and geographic areas, would provide the directors with the required insight into corporate operations. Murphy had several discussions with the division managers for each product line and compiled the following information from these meetings.

 

Product Lines

 

Furniture

Sports

Appliances

Total

Production and sales in units

160,000

180,000

160,000

500,000

Average selling price per unit

$8.00

$20.00

$15.00

 

Average variable manufacturing cost per unit

4.00

9,50

8.25

 

Average variable selling expense per unit

200

2.50

2.25

 

Fixed manufacturing overhead, excluding depreciation

 

 

 

$ 500,000

Depreciation of plant and equipment

 

 

 

400,000

Administrative and selling expense

 

 

 

1,160,000

1. The division managers concluded that Murphy should allocate fixed manufacturing overhead to hath product lines and geographic areas on the basis of the ratio of the variable costs expended to total variable costs.

2. Each of the division managers agreed that a reasonable basis for the allocation of depreciation an plant and equipment would be the ratio of units produced per product line (or per geographical area) to the total number of units produced.

3. There was little agreement on the allocation of administrative and selling expenses. S,) Murphy decided to allocate only those expenses that were traceable directly to a segment. f or example, manufacturing staff salaries would be allocated to product lines, and sales staff salaries would be allocated to geographic areas. Murphy used the following data for this allocation.

Manufacturing Staff

Sales Staff

Furniture

$120.000

United States

$ 60,000

Sports

140.000

Canada

100.000

Appliances

80 000

Asia

250.000

4. The division managers were able to provide reliable sales percentages for their product lines by geographical area.

 

Percentage ofUnit Sales

 

United States

Canada

Asia

Furniture

40%

10%

50%

Sports

40%

40%

20%

Appliances

20%

20%

60%

Murphy prepared the following product-line income statement based on the data presented above,

 

PACIFICRIMINDUSTRIES

 

Segmented Income Statement by Product Lines

For theFiscal YearEnded April 30, 20xO

Product Lines

 

Furniture

Sports

Appliances

Unallocated

Total

Sales in units

160.000

180,000

160,000

 

 

Sale

$1,280,000

$3,600,000

$2,400,000

$7,280,000

Variable manufacturing and selling costs

960,000

2,160,000

1,680,000

4,800,000

Contribution margin

$ 320,000

$1,440,000

$ 720,000

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$2,480,000

Fixed costs:

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed manufacturing overhead

$ 100,000

$ 225,000

$ 175,000

$ -

$ 500,000

Depreciation

128.000

144,000

128,000

-

400,000

Administrative and selling expenses

120.000

140,000

80,000

820,000

1,160,000

Total fixed costs

$ 348.000

$ 509,000

$ 383,000

$ 820,000

$2,060,000

Operating income(loss)

$ (28,000

$ 931,000

$ 337,000

$(820,000)

$ 420,000

Required:

1. Prepare a segmented income statement for Pacific Rim Industries based on the company's geographical areas. The statement should show the operating income for each segment.

2. As a result of the information disclosed by both segmented income statements (by product line and by geographic area). recommend areas where Pacific Rim Industries should focus its attention in order to improve corporate profitability.

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