Red Deer Sporting Goods is a retailer of sporting equipment. Last year, Red Deer Sporting Goods sales

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Red Deer Sporting Goods is a retailer of sporting equipment. Last year, Red Deer Sporting Goods’ sales revenues totalled $6,400,000. Total expenses were $2,800,000. Of this amount, approximately $1,792,000 were variable, while the remainder were fixed. Since Red Deer Sporting Goods offers thousands of different products, its managers prefer to calculate the break-even point in terms of sales dollars, rather than units.
Assume that Red Deer Sporting Goods gathers information on the sales of their products based on two departments: Winter Sports and Summer Sports. Winter Sports revenues total $4,000,000 of the total $6,400,000 and the department has an average contribution margin of 75%, while Summer Sports brings in the remaining revenues and has a contribution margin of 67%. Of the fixed costs, $550,000 can be directly traced to Winter Sports and $400,000 can be traced to Summer Sports. Prepare a segmented contribution margin income statement for Red Deer Sporting Goods.
Contribution Margin
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...
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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0176223311

1st Canadian Edition

Authors: Karen Wilken Braun, Wendy Tietz, Walter Harrison, Rhonda Pyp

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