Crossfire Company segments its business into two regions—East and West. The company prepared a contribution format segmented income statement as shown below:     Total Company   East   West Sales $ 910,000   $ 650,000   $ 260,000 Variable expenses   637,000     468,000     169,000 Contribution margin   273,000     182,000     91,000 Traceable fixed expenses   133,000     70,000     63,000 Segment margin   140,000   $ 112,000   $ 28,000 Common fixed expenses   56,000             Net operating income $ 84,000                 Required: 1. Compute the companywide break-even point in dollar sales. 2. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the East region. 3. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the West region. 4. Prepare a new segmented income statement based on the break-even dollar sales that you computed in requirements 2 and 3. What is Crossfire’s net operating income (loss) in your new segmented income statement? 5. Do you think that Crossfire should allocate its common fixed expenses to the East and West regions when computing the break-even points for each region?

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Crossfire Company segments its business into two regions—East and West. The company prepared a contribution format segmented income statement as shown below:

 

  Total Company   East   West
Sales $ 910,000   $ 650,000   $ 260,000
Variable expenses   637,000     468,000     169,000
Contribution margin   273,000     182,000     91,000
Traceable fixed expenses   133,000     70,000     63,000
Segment margin   140,000   $ 112,000   $ 28,000
Common fixed expenses   56,000            
Net operating income $ 84,000            
 

 

Required:

1. Compute the companywide break-even point in dollar sales.

2. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the East region.

3. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the West region.

4. Prepare a new segmented income statement based on the break-even dollar sales that you computed in requirements 2 and 3. What is Crossfire’s net operating income (loss) in your new segmented income statement?

5. Do you think that Crossfire should allocate its common fixed expenses to the East and West regions when computing the break-even points for each region?

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