Spiess Corporation has two major business segments--Apparel and Accessories. Data concerning those segments for December appear below: Sales revenues, Apparel $683,000
Variable expenses, Apparel $351,000
Traceable fixed expenses, Apparel $154,000
Sales revenues, Accessories $848,000
Variable expenses, Accessories $424,000
Traceable fixed expenses, Accessories $190,000

Common fixed expenses totaled $406,000 and were allocated as follows: $182,000 to the Apparel business segment and $224,000 to the Accessories business segment.

Required:
Prepare a segmented income statement in the contribution format for the company.

Consumer surplus is: the difference between the price of a product and what consumers were willing to pay for the product. the difference between the discounted price of a product and its retail price. the difference between the price paid by consumers and the price required of producers. the difference between the price of a product and consumers' valuation of the last unit of the product purchased.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)

Jillian wants to plan her finances because she wants to create and maintain her tax and credit history. she also wants to chart out all of her financial transactions for the past federal fiscal year. what duration should jillian consider to calculate her finances? from (march or january )to (december or april)?