Problem $6-26($Algo$)$ Restructuring a Segmented Income Statement $[$LO$6-4]$

Millard Corporation is a wholesale distributor of office products. It purchases office products from manufacturers and distributes them in the West, Central, and East regions. Each of these regions is about the same size, and each has its own manager and sales staff.

The company has been experiencing losses for many months. In an effort to improve profits, management prepared the segmented income statement for May as shown below.

$\backslash$table$[[,$Sales Region$],[,$West,Central,East$],[$Sales$,$$$313,000,$$$801,000,$$$698,000$