What effect would this action have on richmond net income

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Question - Analyze Operational Changes - Richmond's is a retail store with eight departments, including a garden department that has been operating at a loss. The following condensed income statement gives the latest year's operating results:

 

Garden Department

All Other Departments

Sales

$504,000

$3,600,000

Cost of sales

302,400

2,340,000

Gross profit

201,600

1,260,000

Direct expenses

162,000

409,500

Common expenses

72,000

468,000

Total expenses

234,000

877,500

Net income (Loss)

$(32,400)

$382,500

Required -

a. Calculate the gross profit percentage for the garden department and for the other departments as a group.

b. Suppose that if the garden department were discontinued, the space occupied could be rented to an outside firm for $27,000 per year, and the common expenses of the firm would be reduced by $6,700. What effect would this action have on Richmond's net income?

c. It is estimated that if an additional $9,000 were spent on advertising, prices in the garden center could be raised an average of 5% without a change in physical volume of products sold. What effect would this have on the operating results of the garden department?

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