Explain the commercial business segment


Tennison Corporation has two major business segments?Consumer and Commercial. Data for the segment and for the company for May appear below:

  • Sales revenues, Consumer ................................................. $970,000
  • Sales revenues, Commercial .............................................. $580,000
  • Variable expenses, Consumer ........................................... $514,000
  • Variable expenses, Commercial ........................................ $267,000
  • Traceable fixed expenses, Consumer ................................ $184,000
  • Traceable fixed expenses, Commercial ............................. $110,000

In addition, common fixed expenses totaled $371,000 and were allocated as follows: $186,000 to the Consumer business segment and $185,000 to the Commercial business segment.

A properly constructed segmented income statement in a contribution format would show that the segment margin of the Consumer business segment is:
A. $272,000
B. $270,000
C. $86,000
D. $514,000

A properly constructed segmented income statement in a contribution format would show that the net operating income of the company as a whole is:
A. $769,000
B. $104,000
C. $475,000
D. ?$267,000

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