High Country Foods Inc. is a diversified food products company with three operating divisions organized as investment centers. Condensed data taken from the records of the three divisions for the year ended June 30, 20Y7, are as follows:

The management of High Country Foods Inc. is evaluating each division as a basis for planning a future expansion of operations.

Instructions
1. Prepare condensed divisional income statements for the three divisions, assuming that there were no service department charges.
2. Using the DuPont formula, compute the profit margin, investment turnover, and return on investment for each division.
3. If available funds permit the expansion of operations of only one division, which of the divisions would you recommend for expansion, based on parts (1) and (2)? Explain.

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Breakfast Division Frozen Foods Division Division Sales Cost of goods sold Operating expenses Invested assets $39,600,000 32,500,000 4,724,000 22,000,000 24,000,000 14,400,000 7,680,000 16,000,000 $18,500,000 3,500,000 3,705,000 9,250,000