McKee’s Outdoor Store Ltd operates three departments, including a department that has consistently shown losses. For the year just ended, the fishing supplies department showed the following performance:

Sales Cost of sales		$76 000  20 000
Gross profit Expenses		56 000  78 800
Loss		$ (22 800)

The expenses include allocated indirect expenses amounting to $42 600, which will be incurred whether the department is operated or not. The remainder of the expenses are direct, but include $30 000 that will have to be reassigned to another department because that amount is the salary of the owner’s daughter, who will be kept employed regardless of the decision made about the fishing supplies department.

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Should the fishing department be eliminated? Support your answer with calculations showing the effect on storewide profits of eliminating the department.