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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 20,300 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 $30 per subscription. A total of 4,000 of these subscriptions were sold last year. In addition to subscriptions, the magazine generated $102,000 in advertising revenues. The costs per magazine subscription were $9 for printing and paper and $4 for postage and shipping.

A total of 28,200 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 2,600 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 $292,000 in occupancy costs includes $56,000 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 $ 3,382,000   Expenses:     Salaries 972,000     Personnel costs 243,000       Occupancy costs 292,000     Reimbursement of member costs to local chapters 500,000     Other membership services 510,000     Printing and paper 348,000     Postage and shipping 182,000     Instructors’ fees 76,000       General and administrative 38,000     Total expenses 3,161,000   Excess of revenues over expenses $ 221,000 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

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Association Total Membership Magazine Subscription Books &Reports Continuing education Sales Member ship dues          2,030,000          1,624,000          406,000 Teacher forum subscriptions              120,000          120,000 Magazine advertisement revenue              102,000          102,000 Technical report and texts sale              705,000          705,000 One day courses              425,000        425,000 Total revenues          3,382,000          1,624,000          628,000          705,000        425,000 Expenses traceble to segments Salaries              874,000              227,000          153,000          304,000        190,000 Personnel costs              218,500                56,750             38,250            76,000           47,500 Occupancy costs              221,200                70,800             23,600            79,600           47,200 Printing and paper              348,000             36,000          112,800        199,200 Reimbursement of member costs              500,000              500,000 Other membership services              510,000              510,000 Postage and shipping                72,400             16,000            56,400 Instructor fee                76,000           76,000 Total traceble expenses          2,820,100          1,364,550          266,850          628,800        559,900 Contribution              561,900              259,450          361,150            76,200      (134,900) Common expenses not traceble to divisions Corporate staff salaries                98,000 Corporate staff personnel costs                24,500 occupancy costs                70,800 General and administrative                38,000 Corporate postage and shipping              109,600 Total common expenses              340,900 Net profit              221,000