Question

A comparative income statement is given below for McKenzie Sales, Ltd., of Toronto:

McKenzie Sales, Ltd. Comparative Income Statement
	This Year			Last Year
Sales	$	7,340,000		$	5,578,400
Cost of goods sold		4,620,000			3,510,500
Gross margin		2,720,000			2,067,900
Selling and administrative expenses:
Selling expenses		1,389,000			1,076,000
Administrative expenses		709,500			610,500
Total expenses		2,098,500			1,686,500
Net operating income		621,500			381,400
Interest expense		101,000			94,000
Net income before taxes	$	520,500		$	287,400

Members of the company’s board of directors are surprised to see that net income increased by only $233,100 when sales increased by $1,761,600.

Selling expenses		%		%
Administrative expenses		%		%
Total selling and administrative expenses		%		%
Net operating income		%		%
Interest expense		%		%
Net income before taxes

Answer 1

	This year	last year
sales	100%	100%
cost of goods sold	62.94%	62.93%
gross margin	37.06%	37.07%
selling & administrative expenses
selling expenses	18.92%	19.29%
administrative expenses	9.67%	10.94%
total selling & administrative expenses	28.59%	30.23%
net operating income	8.47%	6.84%
interest expenses	1.38%	1.69%
net income before taxes	7.09%	5.15%

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