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 19,900 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 $34 per subscription. A total of 3,200 of these subscriptions were sold last year. In addition to subscriptions, the magazine generated $112,000 in advertising revenues. The costs per magazine subscription were $8 for printing and paper and $4 for postage and shipping.
A total of 28,600 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 1,880 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 $50,000 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.
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.
Music Teachers, Inc., is an educational association for music teachers that has 19,900 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.
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Divison Total Membership Magazine Books&Reports Continuing Education Revenue from sales 3243800 1592000 506800 715000 430000 Revenue from advertising 112000 112000 Revenue From Sales 3355800 Costs Salaries 905000 222000 160000 330000 193000 Personnel Costs 226250 55500 40000 82500 48250 Occupancy Costs 219400 72600 24200 74200 48400 Reimbursement of member cost to local chapters 570000 570000 Other Membership Services 510000 510000 Printing and Paper 338000 184800 114400 52800 Postage and Shipping 70000 12800 57200 Instructor Fees 80000 80000 Total Traceable Expenses 2918650 COMMON EXPENSES Salaries 94000 Personnel Costs 23500 Occupancy Costs 72600 Postage and Shipping 163000 General and Adminstrative 35000 Total Non Traceable Expenses 388100 Total Expenses 3306750 Profit 49050
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