A condensed income statement for the Music Division of Memphis Sounds Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2006, is as follows:
Sales ............. $410,000
Cost of goods sold ........ 177,500
Gross profit .......... $232,500
Operating expenses ....... 187,400
Income from operations ...... $ 45,100
Assume that the Music Division received no charges from service departments. The president of Memphis Sounds has indicated that the division’s rate of return on a $256,250 investment must be increased to at least 20% by the end of the next year if operations are to continue. The division manager is considering the following three proposals:
Proposal 1: Transfer recording equipment with a book value of $51,250 to other divisions at no gain or loss and lease similar equipment. The annual lease payments would exceed the amount of depreciation expense on the old equipment by $12,300.
This increase in expense would be included as part of the cost of goods sold. Sales would remain unchanged.
Proposal 2: Purchase new and more efficient disk reproduction equipment and thereby reduce the cost of goods sold by $53,300. Sales would remain unchanged, and the old equipment, which has no remaining book value, would be scrapped at no gain or loss. The new equipment would increase invested assets by an additional $256,250 for the year.
Proposal 3: Reduce invested assets by discontinuing a label. This action would eliminate sales of $70,000, cost of goods sold of $38,900, and operating expenses of $37,000. Assets of $43,750 would be transferred to other divisions at no gain or loss.

Instructions
1. Using the DuPont formula for rate of return on investment, determine the profit margin, investment turnover, and rate of return on investment for the Music Division for the past year.
2. Prepare condensed estimated income statements and calculate the invested assets for each proposal.
3. Using the DuPont formula for rate of return on investment, determine the profit margin, investment turnover, and rate of return on investment for each proposal.
4. Which of the three proposals would meet the required 20% rate of return on investment?
5. If the Music Division were in an industry where the profit margin could not be increased, how much would the investment turnover have to increase to meet the president’s required 20% rate of return on investment?