Prepare a properly formatted income statement


Question: Niesen Corporation has two major business segments-consumer and commercial. Data for the segment and for the company for August appear below:

Sales Revenues, consumer =               $690,000
Sales Revenues, Commercial =            $310,000
Variable Expenses, consumer =            $290,000
Variable expenses, commercial =          $164,000
Traceable fixed expenses, consumer =   $104,000
Traceable fixed expenses, commercial = $ 50,000

In addition, common fixed expenses totaled $282,000 and were allocated as follows : $127,000 to the consumer business segment and $155,000 to the commercial business segment.

A) Prepare a properly formatted income statement

B) The contribution margin of the commercial business segment is ?

C) A properly constructed segmented income statement in a contribution format would show that the segment margin of the consumer business segment is ?

D) a properly constructed segmented income statement in a contribution format would show that the net operating incomeof the company as a whole is ?

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