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The Whole Life Baked Goods Company is a diversified food company that specializes in all-natural foods. The company has three operating divisions organized as investment centers. Condensed data taken from the records of the three divisions for the year ended June 30, 2017, are as follows:

Cereal Division Snack Cake Division Retail Bakeries Division
Sales $17,600,000 $18,000,000 $9,520,000 Cost of goods sold 10,600,000 12,550,000 6,630,000 Operating expenses 6,120,000 4,730,000 2,318,800 Invested assets 8,000,000 6,000,000 6,800,000

The management of The Whole Life Baked Goods Company is evaluating each division as a basis for planning a future expansion of operations.
Required:
1. Prepare condensed divisional income statements for the three divisions, assuming that there were no service department charges.
2. Using the DuPont formula for return on investment, compute the profit margin, investment turnover, and return on investment for each division. If required, round your final answer to one decimal place.
3. If available funds permit the expansion of operations of only one division, which of the divisions would you recommend for expansion?

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Attached is the prepared table:

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Answer:

1.  Condensed income statement for three divisions    

                       cereal snack,cake bakeries  

     

sales                17600000   18000000 9520000  

Cost of sales        10600000   12550000 6630000  

gross profit        7000000    5450000 2890000  

operating expenses     6120000     4730000 2318800  

net Income         880000      720000 571200  

     

invested assets  8000000 6000000 6800000  

2.profit margin  0.1                    0.0             0.1

investment turnover 2.2                        3             1.4

Return on investment 0.1                    0.1              0.1

3. Snack and cake division should be the one to expand because it has a high investment turnover meaning for every three sales they utilise one asset and it has a high turnover.

Explanation:

profit margin = net income/sales

investment turnover = sales/ assets

ROI = net income / assets