Posted: January 6th, 2017

Chocolatiers has $15,000 to be used in advertising for one of the two product lines and expects that this expenditure will result in additional sales of $50,000. How should the company decide which product line to advertise?

EM 22.1A Preparing and Using Responsibility Income Statements

Chocolatiers Company produces two products: Solid chocolate and powdered chocolate. Cost and

revenue data for each product line for the current month are as follows:

In addition, fixed costs that are common to both product lines amount to $125,000.

Instructions

a. Prepare Chocolatiers’s responsibility income statement for the current month. Report the responsibility margin for each product line and income from operations for the company as a whole. Also include columns showing all dollar amounts as percentages of sales.

b. According to the analysis performed in part a, which product line is more profitable? Should the common fixed costs be considered when determining the profitability of individual product lines? Why or why not?

c. Chocolatiers has $15,000 to be used in advertising for one of the two product lines and expects that this expenditure will result in additional sales of $50,000. How should the company decide which product line to advertise?