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Music Teachers, Inc., is an educational association for music teachers that has

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Music Teachers, Inc., is an educational association for music teachers that has 20,400 members. The association operates from a central headquarters but has local membership chapters throughout the United States. Monthly meetings are held by the local chapters to discuss recent developments on topics of interest to music teachers. The association’s journal, Teachers’ Forum, is issued monthly with features about recent developments in the field. The association publishes books and reports and also sponsors professional courses that qualify for continuing professional education credit. The association’s statement of revenues and expenses for the current year is presented below.

  

   

The board of directors of Music Teachers, Inc., has requested that a segmented income statement be prepared showing the contribution of each segment to the association. The association has four segments: Membership Division, Magazine Subscriptions Division, Books and Reports Division, and Continuing Education Division. Mike Doyle has been assigned responsibility for preparing the segmented income statement, and he has gathered the following data prior to its preparation.

  

Membership dues are $100 per year, of which $20 is considered to cover a one-year subscription to the association’s journal. Other benefits include membership in the association and chapter affiliation. The portion of the dues covering the magazine subscription ($20) should be assigned to the Magazine Subscription Division.

One-year subscriptions to Teachers’ Forum were sold to nonmembers and libraries at $38 per subscription. A total of 2,900 of these subscriptions were sold last year. In addition to subscriptions, the magazine generated $105,000 in advertising revenues. The costs per magazine subscription were $7 for printing and paper and $4 for postage and shipping.

A total of 28,800 technical reports and professional texts were sold by the Books and Reports Division at an average unit selling price of $25. Average costs per publication were $4 for printing and paper and $2 for postage and shipping.

The association offers a variety of continuing education courses to both members and nonmembers. The one-day courses had a tuition cost of $75 each and were attended by 2,400 students. A total of 1,840 students took two-day courses at a tuition cost of $125 for each student. Outside instructors were paid to teach some courses.

  

     Personnel costs are 25% of salaries in the separate divisions as well as for the corporate staff. The $288,000 in occupancy costs includes $53,000 in rental cost for a warehouse used by the Books and Reports Division for storage purposes.

Printing and paper costs other than for magazine subscriptions and for books and reports relate to the Continuing Education Division.

General and administrative expenses include costs relating to overall administration of the association as a whole. The company’s corporate staff does some mailing of materials for general administrative purposes.

    The expenses that can be traced or assigned to the corporate staff, as well as any other expenses that are not traceable to the segments, will be treated as common costs. It is not necessary to distinguish between variable and fixed costs.

Music Teachers, Inc.
Statement of Revenues and Expenses
For the Year Ended November 30   Revenues $ 3,385,200   Expenses:     Salaries 961,000     Personnel costs 240,250       Occupancy costs 288,000     Reimbursement of member costs to local chapters 560,000     Other membership services 520,000     Printing and paper 336,000     Postage and shipping 203,000     Instructors’ fees 74,000       General and administrative 34,000     Total expenses 3,216,250   Excess of revenues over expenses $ 168,950 1. Prepare a contribution format segmented income statement for Music Teachers, Inc. This statement should show the segment margin for each division as well as results for the association as a whole Division Association Magazine Books & Continuing Total Membership Subscriptions Reports Education Sales Membership dues Non-member journal subscriptions lotal revenues Expenses traceable to segments Total traceable expenses Common expenses not traceable to divisions lotal common expenses

Explanation / Answer

workings:

Association Total Membership Magazine Subscription Books &Reports Continuing education Sales Member ship dues          2,040,000          1,632,000          408,000 Teacher forum subscriptions              110,200          110,200 Magazine advertisement revenue              105,000          105,000 Technical report and texts sale              720,000          720,000 One day courses              410,000        410,000 Total revenues          3,385,200          1,632,000          623,200          720,000        410,000 Expenses traceble to segments Salaries              862,000              215,000          156,000          304,000        187,000 Personnel costs              215,500                53,750             39,000            76,000           46,750 Occupancy costs              217,500                70,500             23,500            76,500           47,000 Printing and paper              336,000             20,300          115,200        200,500 Reimbursement of member costs              560,000              560,000 Other membership services              520,000              520,000 Postage and shipping                69,200             11,600            57,600 Instructor fee                74,000           74,000 Total traceble expenses          2,854,200          1,419,250          250,400          629,300        555,250 Contribution              531,000              212,750          372,800            90,700      (145,250) Common expenses not traceble to divisions Corporate staff salaries                99,000 Corporate staff personnel costs                24,750 occupancy costs                70,500 General and administrative                34,000 Corporate postage and shipping              133,800 Total common expenses              362,050 Net profit              168,950