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Beautifly is a luxury boutique that operates various stores throughout Florida. The company, which has three divisions (Miami, Naples, and Tampa), reported the following information for the year just ended (in thousands):

MIAMI	NAPLES	TAMPA
$9,000	$6,000	$5,000
6,400	4,400	3,500
1,500	1,900	1,000
1,000	700	200

Beautifly reported $600 of common fixed expenses that top management wants to allocate to the divisions on the basis of sales revenue. As the companys chief executive officer notes, Each division helped to incur a portion of these costs and, as a result, each should absorb its fair share. The firm has adopted various responsibility accounting procedures to evaluate division personnel. Required: A. Compute the company's total sales revenue. B. Calculate the amount of variable operating expense incurred by the Naples Division. C. Calculate the fixed costs controllable by Miami's management. D. Calculate the fixed costs traceable to the Tampa Division but controllable by others. E. Beautifly desires to promote a division manager to the corporate office to oversee selected operations. In determining which individual to promote, should Beautiflys top management focus on the profit margin controllable by the division manager or the overall divisional profit margin? Briefly explain. F. If the company follows the desires of top management, how much of the common fixed expenses would be allocated to the Tampa Division? G. Do cost allocations such as those in part "F" typically appear on a segmented income statement?

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